Finite Quotes - Page 17

• Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world.

  Shawn Achor

  Choices, Brain, World

  "Is happiness the secret of success?" by Shawn Achor, www.cnn.com. March 19, 2012.

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• If to enjoy even an enjoyable present we must have the assurance of a happy future, we are “crying for the moon.” We have no such assurance. The best predictions are still matters of probability rather than certainty, and to the best of our knowledge every one of us is going to suffer and die. If, then, we cannot live happily without an assured future, we are certainly not adapted to living in a finite world where, despite the best plans, accidents will happen, and where death comes at the end.

  Alan Watts

  Moon, Suffering, World

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• When all has been considered, it seems to me to be the irresistible intuition that infinite punishment for finite sin would be unjust, and therefore wrong. We feel that even weak and erring Man would shrink from such an act. And we cannot conceive of God as acting on a lower standard of right and wrong.

  Lewis Carroll

  Men, Intuition, Acting

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• Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.

  Matthew Yglesias

  Valuable, Managers

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• Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Thinking, Politics, Way

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• This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wreckage, Infinite, Shore

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• We need an economics fit for purpose in a finite and entropic world.

  Herman E. Daly

  Needs, Purpose, World

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• Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

  Vladimir Arnold

  Numbers, Fields, Cryptography

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• There is no single theory that is used in economics that considers the finite nature of resources. It's shocking.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Economics, Theory, Used

  "Jeremy Grantham on how to feed the world and why he invests in oil". Interview with Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2013.

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• It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God.
  He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God.
  This refusal does not presuppose any belief.
  It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind:
  that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary,
  are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying
  the desire that perpetually burns within us
  for an infinite and perfect good.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Believe, Past

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• In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

  Demetri Martin

  Hopeful, Retrospect, Infinite

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

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• Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

  Robin Ince

  Believe, Use, Want

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out ofa finite set of elements. All natural languages in their spoken or written form are languages in this sense.

  Noam Chomsky

  Elements, Language, Infinite

  Noam Chomsky (2002). “Syntactic Structures”, p.13, Walter de Gruyter

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• Three elements go to make up an idea. The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Past, Ideas, Feelings

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1974). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”, Harvard University Press

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• Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.

  Jim Whitehurst

  Innovation, Saving, Stuff

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• Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Perception, Ends

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• Reincarnation is a process in which a finite being will go through a series of transmutations and will perceive different things. There will be a continuity of perception.

  Frederick Lenz

  Perception, Different, Reincarnation

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• Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, World, Want

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• We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

  Dave Kellett

  World, Found, Time To Leave

  Twitter post from Nov 9, 2016

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• What will use more finite resources? That 3rd or 4th child you have or driving a large car? We all need to think about the choices we make

  Phil Harding

  Children, Thinking, Car

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• The disciple simply burns his boats and goes ahead. He is called out... The old life is left behind, and completely surrendered. The disciple is dragged out of his relative security into a life of absolute insecurity... out of the realm of the finite...into the realm of infinite possibilities.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Faith, Inspiration, Insecurity

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• What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, benign Creator is one thing. To believe that this Creator took on human vesture, accepted death and mortality, was tempted, betrayed, broken, and all for love of us, defies reason. It is so wild that it terrifies some Christians who try to dogmatize their fear by lashing out at other Christians, because tidy Christianity with all answers given is easier than one which reaches out to the wild wonder of God's love, a love we don't even have to earn.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Christian, Believe, Broken

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• To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this be your meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Meditation, Infinite

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• There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not losing its infinity. If this meeting is dissolved, then things become unreal.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Ideas, Infinity, Movement

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Essays”, p.364, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• My soul is an entangled knot,
  Upon a liquid vortex wrought
  By Intellect in the Unseen residing,
  And thine doth like a convict sit,
  With marline-spike untwisting it,
  Only to find its knottiness abiding;
  Since all the tools for its untying
  In four-dimensional space are lying,
  Wherein they fancy intersperses
  Long avenues of universes,
  While Klein and Clifford fill the void
  With one finite, unbounded homoloid,
  And think the Infinite is now at last destroyed.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Lying, Thinking, Space

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