Finite Quotes

322 Finite quotes by 240 unique authors

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life… — Alfred North Whitehead
We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived. — Randy Pausch
...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It… — Joseph Brodsky
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size? — Woody Allen
Pleasure to me is wonderâ€”the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the… — H P Lovecraft
I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is… — C.S. Lewis
It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in.… — Douglas Adams
It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called… — Madeleine L'Engle
The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but… — Joyce Carol Oates
you and I have good enough minds to know how very limited and finite they really are. The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument. — Madeleine L'Engle
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules… — Frank Herbert
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes… — Steven Galloway
For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that… — Yann Martel
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is… — Richard Dawkins
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things… — Jonathan Franzen
People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but… — Stephen Hawking
The past is a finite resource. — Douglas Coupland
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember. Lies 2: Time is a straight line. Lies 3: The difference between the past… — Jeanette Winterson
Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain? — Marian Keyes

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