Finite Quotes

322 Finite quotes by 240 unique authors

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
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
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
Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim. — Salman Rushdie
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
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
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
We are accustomed to repeating the clichÃ©, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to… — Michael Chabon
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play. — James P. Carse

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