Finite Quotes

322 quotes by 240 authors

Everything is so finite but thatâ€™s what makes our time and specific moments so important. — Ethan Hawke
There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious. — Ethan Hawke
There's always going to be one more thing. Because that's what infinite feels like. And the difference between love and everything else is that it's… — B. J. Novak
I had played many gay characters before, but they were finite - guest characters in TV shows or characters in plays. — Eric McCormack
The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to… — George Washington
God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part. — Leo Tolstoy
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. — Herman Melville
When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
My theory is that there is a finite amount of intelligence in a family, and you're supposed to gradually transfer it to your children over… — Dave Barry
Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is the center of… — Anodea Judith
When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation. — Eliphas Levi
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past. — Sandra Postel
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a… — Laurens van der Post
The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties… — Galileo Galilei
There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess. — Malcolm Gladwell
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined… — Dan Simmons
One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly,… — Reinhold Niebuhr
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context. And… — William Macneile Dixon
Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and… — Van Jones

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