Finite Quotes
322 quotes by 240 authors
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Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.
— Zhuangzi
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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply upon which they…
— Andrew Solomon
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Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function,"…
— Carl Magnusson
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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the…
— Arshile Gorky
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Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his strengths, from a…
— Gregory Benford
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Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing…
— Thomas de Quincey
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God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to…
— Francis Schaeffer
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To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to…
— Novalis
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Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear…
— Edith Stein
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The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'
— Unknown Author
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For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:For…
— John Baillie
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Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?
— Justin Rosenstein
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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is…
— David Berlinski
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It is completely incomprehensible to us how God can reveal himself and to some extent make himself known in created beings: eternity in time, immensity…
— Herman Bavinck
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Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.
— Merlin Mann
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Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite…
— Aristotle
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It is not given to man to know the whole Truth. His duty lies in living up to the truth as he sees it, and…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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