Quotes About Finite

We all know, or at least sense, that the world is upside down: we act as if there is no end to what is actually finite—fossil fuels and the atmospheric space to absorb their emissions. And we act as if there are strict and immovable limits to what is actually bountiful—the financial resources to build the kind of society we need. The task of our time is to turn this around: to challenge this false scarcity.

We are trapped within an economic system that has it backward; it behaves as if there is no end to what is actually finite (clean water, fossil fuels, and the atmospheric space to absord their emissions) while insisting that there are strict and immovable limits to what is actually quite flexible: the financial resources that human institutions manufacture.

Faith is the element which transforms the ordinary vibration of thought, created by the finite mind of man, into the spiritual equivalent.

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.

the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Omul e un animal moral abandonat într-un univers amoral È™i condamnat la o existen?? finit? si f?r? alt? semnificaÈ›ie decât perpetuarea ciclului natural al speciei. E imposibil de supravieÈ›uit într-o stare prelungit? de realitate, cel puÈ›in pentru o fiin?? omeneasc?. Ne petrecem o bun? parte a vieÈ›ilor noastre visând, mai ales când suntem treji.

Despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realized that my hour and someone else's hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way; we cannot think of it in the same way.

My life began at five years old. Knowing that I would die instilled something in me that I carry to this day: the awareness that, despite time being infinite, my time was limited, my time was running out. I realised that my hour and someone else's hour are not equal. We cannot spend it the same way, we cannot think of it in the same way.

All is finite in the present; and even that finite is infinite in it velocity of flight towards death. But in God there is nothing finite...Upon a night of earthquake he builds a thousand years of pleasant habitations for man. Upon the sorrow of an infant he raises oftentimes from human intellects glorious vintages that could not else have been.

Cuando decimos que una cosa es infinita, significamos solamente que no somos capaces de abarcar los términos y límites de la cosa mencionada, con lo que no tenemos una concepción de la cosa, sino de nuestra propia incapacidad

The most important thing to remember is that a duplex's properties are stretchable but they aren't infinite. One minute the opening will be right there in front of you, and the next minute you won't even know where it went.

He thought of relationships as finite, like a pie that can be cut into only so many pieces. Take a piece away, and there was that much less for him. I knew, however, that relationships are more like muscles—the more you work them, the stronger they become.

His statement flew in the face of everything I knew. He thought of relationships as finite, like a pie that could only be cut into so many pieces. Take a piece away, and there was that much less for him. I knew, however, that relationships are more like muscles - the more you work them, the stronger they become.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth in anything physical, on a physically finite planet, is either mad or an economist.

Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

The late maverick economist Kenneth Boulding perhaps best summed it up when testifying before the U.S. Congress, declaring that "anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

Ante Dios sólo hay reglas o en realidad sólo hay una regla y ninguna excepción. Como ignoramos la regla superior inventamos reglas generales que no lo son, y hasta sería posible que, aun para los seres finitos, lo que llamamos reglas no fueran sino excepciones.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities?

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.