Finite Quotes

322 quotes by 246 authors

One drop of eternity is of greater weight than a vast ocean of finite things. — Karl Barth
This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude is a whopping… — Jon Stewart
Photography is a system of visual editing. At bottom, it is a matter of surrounding with a frame a portion of one's cone of vision,… — John Szarkowski
Language makes infinite use of finite media. — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit… — Barack Obama
Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W.… — David Foster Wallace
Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend. — John Green
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… — Phil Harding
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… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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,… — Pope Benedict XVI
Heaven is a paradise, a city, a country . . . and so much more that we can't begin to wrap our finite minds around… — Greg Laurie
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… — Rabindranath Tagore
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… — Lewis Carroll
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on… — George Monbiot
Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under… — Thomas Carlyle
We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and… — L.E. Modesitt Jr.
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily… — Stephen Batchelor
Each one of us is finite, and if we can spread ourselves out in a way to inspire and help other people to be all… — Felicia Day

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