Finite Quotes

322 quotes by 240 authors

All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;… — Theodore Roethke
Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet — Phil Harding
When politicians & economists understand we live in a finite world & act accordingly then a better future has a chance — Phil Harding
The basic anxiety, the anxiety of a finite being about the threat of non-being, cannot be eliminated. It belongs to existence itself. — Paul Tillich
I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates… — Buck Brannaman
Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life. — Jim Costa
Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade. — Jim Bishop
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite. — Swami Vivekananda
And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is… — David Suzuki
If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and… — David Deutsch
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for… — Stephen Hawking
Love is the infinite which is given to the finite. — Paul Tillich
Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists… — Paramahansa Yogananda
At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us. — C.S. Lewis
Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though… — Saint Augustine
Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to… — Soren Kierkegaard

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