Infinity Quotes - Page 17

• Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind

  Brandon Boyd

  Fables, Fields, Trails

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• Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids to self-reliance, hardihood, woodcraft, or marksmanship, but too often functioning as substitutes for them. Gadgets fill the pockets, they dangle from neck and belt. The overflow fills the auto-trunk and also the trailer. Each item of outdoor equipment grows lighter and often better, but the aggregate poundage becomes tonnage.

  Aldo Leopold

  Self, Pockets, Gadgets

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.180, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you started with. Can any being seriously think that he is going to pass through the infinity of time without ever making another mistake? Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Mistake, Thinking

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.84, Gibbs Smith

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• This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.

  Thomas Traherne

  Space, Joy, Duration

  Thomas Traherne, Bertram Dobell (1950). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.230, CCEL

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• Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and infinity, everything is contained.

  Robert Young

  Reality, Soul, Lines

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• For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

  Blaise Pascal

  Life, Time, Nature

  "Pensées" by Blaise Pascal, (Section II: The Misery of Man without God), 1669.

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• There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

  Gene Wolfe

  Ignorance, Space, Stupidity

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.327, Macmillan

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• A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than that flower when we try to describe God. His infinity covers not only one planet, but the entire solar system and 100 billion suns. That doesn't mean he is limited in his ability to be part of you.

  John Templeton

  Flower, Optimistic, Mean

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• The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.

  Joseph Priestley

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Joseph Priestley (1780). “The theological and miscellaneous works of Joseph Priestley”, p.373

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• Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Liberty, Inquiry

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.363

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• It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a certain determinate number of species, but it seems that it has thrown out all at once a world of relative and non-relative creatures, an infinity of harmonic and contrary combinations and a perpetuity of destructions and replacements. What idea of power is not given us by this spectacle! What feeling of respect for its Author is not inspired in us by this view of the universe!

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Nature, Science, Views

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• Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. It is your destiny to play an infinity of roles, but these roles are not yourself. The spirit is non-local, but it leaves behind a fingerprint, which we call a body. A wizard does not believe himself to be a local event dreaming of a larger world. A wizard is a world dreaming of local events.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dream, Believe, Destiny

  "The Way Of The Wizard: 20 Lessons for Living a Magical Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 1995.

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• Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Silence, Meditation, Silence Is

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• And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen.

  Isaac Newton

  God, Powerful, Intelligent

  Sir Isaac Newton (2014). “Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• Poetry...the deepest abyss of infinity.

  Sally-Ann Roberts

  Poetry, Abyss

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• The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us can hope, even in imagination, to scale the Everest and reach its summit when the sky is blue and the air is still, and in the stillness of the air survey the entire Himalayan range in the dazzling white of the snow stretching to infinity? None of us can hope for a comparable vision of nature and of the universe around us. But there is nothing mean or lowly in standing in the valley below and awaiting the sun to rise over Kinchinjunga.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Mean, Science, Air

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Kameshwar C. Wali (2001). “A Quest for Perspectives: Selected Works of S. Chandrasekhar : with Commentary”, p.1286, World Scientific

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• Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several years beforehand by heat waves, by winds, by meteorites, in short, by an infinity of phenomena.

  Nicolas Antoine Boulanger

  Nature, Science, Years

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• Learn to be comfortable with the concept of infinity, and see yourself as an infinite being.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Infinite, Concepts

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.121, Hay House, Inc

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• Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Success, Spiritual, Wall

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details, which must be attended to if rules have to be adapted to different men, instead of indiscriminately subjecting all men to the same rule.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Details, Different

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.363

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• There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It did not break upon the silence, but it was older than the silence and the silence was made of it.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Stars, Distance, Dark

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• I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes – toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings.

  John Irving

  Years, Civilization, Perception

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.562, Random House

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• Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Baby, Islands

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Geography III: Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, World

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Stars, Light, Flames

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