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Quotes About Finite

Epe luzera hilda egongo gara denok.
~ John Maynard Keynes
A man is born. He dies.
~ John McGahern
We are surrounded with people who think that what we have been doing for that one-fortieth of a second can go on indefinitely. They are considered normal, but they are stark, raving mad.
~ John McPhee
The most extensive ideas that a finite mind can frame about divine love, are infinitely below its true nature.
~ Arthur W. Pink
I always designed 'Gravity Falls' to be a finite series about one epic summer-a series with a beginning, middle, and end.
~ Alex Hirsch
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
What do you think?" "No way. Dirt to dirt. One Life to Live." Ruth winces. "Why? What's wrong with that?" he asks. "Microbes. Bacteria. Worms underground that mingle our parts with everything. It's generous." He locks his fingers in hers. "And infinite." Mr. Bell squares his face to hers. "If you can get over the dreaded finite.
~ Samantha Hunt
We're only immortal for a limited time.
~ Neil Peart
Time is the best killer.
~ Agatha Christie
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.
~ John Hartford
Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.
~ Twyla Tharp
We die only once, and for such a long time.
~ Moliere
Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.
~ Daphne Guinness
Time is a perishable commodity.
~ David Hume
Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.
~ William Law
We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.
~ Susan L. Taylor
Every time we mention the world, we must remember it is going to end.
~ Edwin Balmer
The greatest cost, namely time.
~ Antiphon
This morning a splendid dawn passed over our house on its way to Kansas. This morning Kansas rolled out of its sleep into a sunlight grandly announced, proclaimed throughout heaven—one more of the very finite number of days that this old prairie has been called Kansas, or Iowa. But it has all been one day, that first day. Light is constant, we just turn over in it. So every day is in fact the selfsame evening and morning.
~ Marilynne Robinson
those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.
~ Aristotle
We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is.
~ Arnold Bennett
Epigraph For this, indeed, is the main source of our ignorance—the fact that our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. —Sir Karl Popper, lecture to the British Academy (1960) Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? —T. S. Eliot, The Rock (1934)
~ Simon Winchester
Man is the synthesis of the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.
~ Soren Kierkegaard