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Quotes About Finite

Love may be boundless and abundant, but time isn't. Time is finite.
~ Tim Harford
Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.
~ Lily Dougall
Your time as a manager is finite and valuable.
~ Matthew Yglesias
Time did not mean anything to those who had too much of it, but it was even more precious once it was limited.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.
~ Nancy Pelosi
Man dies constantly until the moment of his demise.
~ Martin Heidegger
Some hominid species may persist for more than a million years, but not forever, and the same will probably be true of us. We are not part of an ongoing and unique surge towards human progress; we are finite components of a natural world that is changing and ephemeral.
~ Martin Jones
The two together-intellectual illumination and emotional catharsis-are the essence of the aesthetic experience. The first constitutes the moment of truth; the second provides the experience of beauty. The two are complementary aspects of an indivisible process-that 'earthing' process where 'the infinite is made to blend itself with the finite, to stand visible, as it were, attainable there' (Carlyle).
~ Arthur Koestler
Wir sind eben bloß zeitliche, endliche, vergängliche, traumartige, wie Schatten vorüberfliegende Wesen. Und was sollte denen ein Intellekt, der unendliche, ewige, absolute Verhältnisse fasste?
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology, with the limits set by genes and cells and flesh and bone. Medical science has given us remarkable power to push against these limits, and the potential value of this power was a central reason I became a doctor. But again and again, I have seen the damage we in medicine do when we fail to acknowledge that such power is finite and always will be. We
~ Atul Gawande
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.
~ Stephen Batchelor
I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. Suffering is Finite, but I feel infinite.
~ Stephen Chbosky + Yann Martel
We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe
~ Stephen Hawking
Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe.
~ Stephen Hawking
No boundary condition: The idea that the universe is finite but has no boundary (in imaginary time).
~ Stephen Hawking
So if a beautiful alien in a flying saucer invites you into her time machine, step with care. You might fall into one of these trapped repeating histories of only finite duration.
~ Stephen Hawking
The fact that light travels at a finite, but very high, speed was first discovered in 1676 by the Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Roemer.
~ Stephen Hawking
Alam semesta mengembang tidak melenyapkan pencipta, tapi jelas membatasi kapan pencipta bisa melakukan penciptaan!
~ Stephen Hawking
The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of a nonliving brain — although it may think it can — the finite mind cannot grasp the infinite.
~ Stephen King
Everything has a limit.
~ Nithyanand S
Time is the single most important resource that we have. Every single minute we lose is never coming back.
~ Tarun Sharma
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Life has a very simple plot, First you're here And then you're not.
~ Eric Idle
Doubting is not unique to a person or a time period. It is the nature of being a finite human living in a complex world filled with pain and disappointment and questions about existence that will never be answered.
~ Ben Young