Finitude Quotes
11 quotes by 11 authors
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There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
— Adi Shankara
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Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished…
— Douglas V. Steere
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In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome…
— Paul Tillich
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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As always, the illusion of self-transcendence is far more facile and available than self-transcendence itself: in the vast majority of cases what human consciousness opens…
— Kenny Smith
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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
— Voltaire
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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
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
— Irvin D. Yalom
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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility…
— Superman
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Everything in this world has its finitude
— Tivea
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Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome
— George Santayana
Who Wrote These Finitude Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 11 Finitude Quotes as follows: