Finite Quotes - Page 16

• Absolute time would exist in a causal structure for which the concept indeterminate as to time order lends to a unique simultaneity, i.e., for which there is no finite interval of time between the departure and return of a first-signal...

  Hans Reichenbach

  Unique, Order, Departure

  "The Philosophy of Space and Time". Book by Hans Reichenbach, 1957.

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• What do we mean by the word 'wisdom'? Usually we mean something superior to knowledge, something deeper. In the spiritual world, the word 'wisdom' is not used in that way. Here wisdom means Light, illumining Light, transforming Light. That which illumines our unlit consciousness is wisdom. That which transforms the finite consciousness into the infinite Consciousness is called wisdom.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Light

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• Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Absolutes, Relative

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

  Herman E. Daly

  Opportunity, Growth, Doe

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• Every life is finite, Will.

  Cassandra Clare

  Life Is

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1141, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is finite and the demands of the imagination and also the demands of the world are infinite, so sort of brokering some kind of agreement between those things is a continual, and for me, and ever-changing challenge.

  Emily Barton

  Agreement, Imagination, Challenges

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

  Masiela Lusha

  No Excuses, Hours, Planets

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

  Artie Shaw

  Thinking, Needs, Definitions

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• The physical laws, in their observable consequences, have a finite limit of precision.

  Kurt Gödel

  Law, Limits, Precision

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• "Ultimate reality" is the highest, deepest, eternal, unchangeable, source and ground of everything we see, touch, and experience with our five senses. It's that which gives being and meaning to everything finite, mortal, changeable. It's also that toward which we creatures look and live - whether we know it or not - our telos; our goal and purpose.

  Roger E. Olson

  Reality, Giving, Goal

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Fiction stymies me with its possibility. I can't see the bottom and I freeze, cling to the side, or just choke. In nonfiction, particularly that which takes personal narrative for its primary topic, I have a finite space and a finite amount of material. I can't fabricate material, I can only shape and burrow into it.

  Melissa Febos

  Space, Fiction, Shapes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.

  Tim Harford

  May, Boundless

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.

  Mahershala Ali

  Sports, Passion, College

  Source: www.npr.org

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• We are used to dealing with problems that have a solution and that can be solved in a finite period. But we're at the beginning of a long period of adjustment that does not have a clear-cut terminal point, and in which our wisdom and sophistication and understanding has to be one of the key elements.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Cutting, Keys, Long

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a certain number of those sub-people come alive or get reenergized for some finite time.

  George Saunders

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Commodity, Respecting Others, Valuable

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I haven't seen any claim that Piraha lacks recursion, that is, that there are a finite number of sentences or sentence frames. If that's so, it would mean that the speakers of this language aren't making use of a capacity that they surely have, a normal situation; plenty of people throughout history would drown if they fall into water.

  Noam Chomsky

  Fall, Mean, Finite Number

  Source: libcom.org

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• My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Winning, Political

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

  Desmond Tutu

  Infinite, Paradox, Made

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Art, Lying, Sunset

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• The trouble is that we do not have the power of God in a full manifestation because of our finite thoughts, but as we go on and let God have His way, there is no limit to what our limitless God will do in response to a limitless faith. But you will never get anywhere except you are in constant pursuit of all the power of God.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Letting Go, Goes On, Way

  Smith Wigglesworth (2000). “Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power”, p.296, Whitaker House

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• Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Men

  Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) (2016). “Joseph Ratzinger Collected Works: Theology of the Liturgy”, p.112, Ignatius Press

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• Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around it. But one thing I do know: Jesus is expecting me, and He's prepared a place for me.

  Greg Laurie

  Country, Jesus, Cities

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• Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.

  Bill Gates

  Finite Number, Numbers, Achievement

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• I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

  Anne Fortier

  Reality, Wish, Flip

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