Quotes About Finite

Anyone not wanting to sink in the wretchedness of the finite is obliged in the most profound sense to struggle with the infinite.

Anxiety is freedom's possibility; this anxiety alone is, through faith, absolutely formative, since it consumes all finite ends, discovers all their deceptions.

Fools and young men prate about everything being possible for a man. That, however, is a great error. Spiritually speaking, everything is possible, but in the world of the finite there is much which is not possible.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

We live within such a tiny capsule of time yet it seems vast until death rudely makes it so insignificant.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!

For one thing we may be grateful: this life is not eternal.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

I'm thankful that everything sweet is sweet because it is finite.

Each minute that passes is one fewer in this house. In this life.

Everything is finite, right? Nothing can last forever.

No blessing lasts forever.

In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. —PARDOT KYNES, FIRST PLANETOLOGIST OF ARRAKIS

Self-awareness: facing mirrors that pass through the universe, gathering new images on the way—endlessly reflexive. The infinite seen as finite, the analogue of consciousness carrying the sensed bits of infinity.

One can contemplate the Emperor and his powers comfortably if one remembers that all things are finite

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary. —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

It was finite, of course, a brief spasm when measured against eternity, but beyond lay horrors to overshadow anything in the past.

Our endless days are numbered.

The laws of nature tell us there's a finite amount of any substance on the face of the earth, and at some point, that's going to run out. And if we're smart and we have some grace and we have some willingness about our destiny, then we will take ourselves into the renewable world.

The one thing you can't buy, find, or create is time.