Ad Infinitum Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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What is peculiar to modern societies is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speaking of it…
— Michel Foucault
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Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves…
— Christopher Dawson
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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit…
— Knut Hamsun
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So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality...…
— E E Cummings
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Imagine a multidimensiona l spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other…
— Alan Watts
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Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the…
— Daniel Starch
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So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
— Jonathan Swift
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The Constitution, when it says, "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad…
— Carla Bley
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It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow…
— Tom Stoppard
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Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power…
— Paulo Coelho
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I was camped at the same site as her: Broughton Farm. She came over to my tent and showed me her blisters. She asked me…
— Joe Dunthorne
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She leaned forward and kissed me on the lips. He mouth was cold, her lips rough from the winter wind, and if the mystics are…
— David Benioff
Who Wrote These Ad Infinitum Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Ad Infinitum Quotes as follows: