Infinite Quotes - Page 33

• To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Wisest Man, Squares

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.302, CUP Archive

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• Infinite possibilities exist to create the previously un-creatable, think the unthinkable and do the undoable-it's an extraordinary time to be alive.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Thinking, Alive, Possibility

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• We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.

  A. J. P. Taylor

  Men, Behaviour, Variety

  "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 34, 1957.

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• The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

  William Safire

  Latin, Government, Office

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• I am a gardener of infinite time.

  Toru Takemitsu

  Infinite Time, Gardener

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• Love is the greatest power and it is, if natural, the highest 'invisible food' from the infinite for soul and body.

  Arnold Ehret

  Love Is, Soul And Body, Invisible

  Arnold Ehret (2012). “Mucusless Diet Healing System: Scientific Method of Eating Your Way to Health”, p.152, Book Publishing Company

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• The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

  Blaise Pascal

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• The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

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• The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Want

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• Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

  Carl Sandburg

  Echoes, Sound, Poetry Is

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On Shabbat something happens to the world - the world becomes infinite again.

  Shlomo Carlebach

  World, Happens, Things Happen

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• Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Giving, Individuality

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

  Branch Rickey

  Men, Capacity, Bad Things

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• Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe

  Archimedes

  Believe, Thinking, Numbers

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• Contemplate life as infinite, undivided, ever present, ever active, until you realize yourself as one with it. It is not even very difficult, for you will be returning only to your own natural condition.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Realizing, Natural, Difficult

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• Love is an infinite sky!

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Sky

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• If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Want, Sides, Walks

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  The things you really need are few and easy to come by; but the things you can imagine you need are infinite, and you will never be satisfied.

  Epicurus

  Needs, Imagine, Easy

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• Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

  Epicurus

  Understanding, Add, Body

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• We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

  Dean Cavanagh

  Self, Capacity, Interest

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• You only have to gaze around you at the natural world to see the proof that beauty, form, order, and growth have survived for billions of years. In dealing with your shadow, you are aligning yourself with the same infinite power. The shadow isn't a fearsome opponent but a worthy one. Powerful as it is, the power of wholeness is infinitely greater, and by a miracle of creation, it is within your grasp.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Order, Years

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• There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

  Kelly Barnhill

  Stories, World

  Kelly Barnhill (2012). “Iron Hearted Violet”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• Who we are is the part of us that is infinite, the part of us that never stops.

  Wayne Dyer

  Who We Are

  "Self-Help Guru Wayne Dyer Dies" by Dominique Mosbergen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 31, 2015.

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• We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is DIVINE LOVE and that is INFINITE.

  Wayne Dyer

  Careers, Body, Who We Are

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• I am walking like a bewitched corpse, with the certainty of being eaten by the infinite, of being annulled by the only existing Absurd.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Absurd, Certainty, Walking

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