Finite Quote by Wilhelm von Humboldt Download Open image “Language makes infinite use of finite media.” — Wilhelm von Humboldt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Finite Infinite Language Media Use
Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Music... a kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads to the edge of the Infinite. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The mere reality of life would be inconceivably poor without the charm of fancy, which brings in its bosom, no doubt, as many vain… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
Women are in this respect more fortunate than men, that most of their employments are of such a nature that they can at the… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and constructed out… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
He who knows his soul knows this truth: " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“Unless death is made a lesson for the living, the life lived is wasted. Why should life come into existence only to be destroyed?… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
