Finite Quotes
322 Finite quotes by 240 unique authors
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My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
— Woody Allen
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Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.
— Salman Rushdie
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In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To…
— Melissa Marr
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What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is…
— William James
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All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to…
— Michael Chabon
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Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to…
— Ken Follett
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i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing…
— Melissa Bank
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We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,…
— Peter Kreeft
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Curiosity and irreverence go together. Curiosity cannot exist without the other. Curiosity asks, "Is this true?" "Just because this has always been the way, is…
— Saul Alinsky
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You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it.…
— J D Salinger
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The individual soul touches upon the world soul like a well reaches for the water table. That which sustains the universe beyond thought and language,…
— Yann Martel
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When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead…
— Jennifer Egan
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you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn't go…
— Haruki Murakami
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Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked…
— Victor Hugo
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I have to go. I have a finite amount of life left and I don't want to spend it arguing with you.
— Jennifer Armintrout
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A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
— Carl Sagan
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A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.
— James P. Carse
Who Wrote These Finite Quotes
240 authors contributed a total of 322 Finite Quotes, led by these top contributors: