Faculty Quote by Plotinus Download Open image “You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.” — Plotinus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Faculty Faith Infinite Reason Superiors Wisdom
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. — James Newman Copy Share Image
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things beyond it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Perfect understanding of the infinite requires limitless intellectual capacity; our undivided attention is better suited for humbler aspirations.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
The study of infinity is much more than a dry academic game. The intellectual pursuit of the absolute infinity is, as Georg Cantor realized,… — Rudy Rucker Copy Share Image
If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality,… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The infinite in mathematics is always unruly unless it is properly treated. — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“This All is universal power, of infinite extent and infinite in potency, a god so great that all his parts are infinite. Name any… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all. — Plotinus Copy Share Image
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share Image
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor — Kenneth Grant Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not only through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There's a curious reluctance on the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ... or, like… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
I am curious to know what would happen if art were suddenly seen for what it is, namely, exact information of how to rearrange… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that… — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
