Quotes About Finite

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE

Life is finite. (Duh.) Time is valuable. (Ditto.) And so am I. I'm valuable. I'm starting to treat myself as valuable.

Religion is the disuniting of man from himself; he sets God before him as the antithesis of himself. … God is … infinite, man … finite … ; God … perfect, man imperfect; … God almighty, man weak; God holy, man sinful.

The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame. We humans are finite, "perfectly imperfect." Limitation is our essential nature. Grave problems result from refusing to accept our limits.

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

'Never' is too much of a word. Nothing lasts forever.

It's a mantra I've lived by for as long as I can remember. Nothing lasts for ever.

in doing the finite [we] may perceive the infinite.

We are finite, we are temporal, and we are embodied.

Religion is dangerous when it becomes absolutist and Manichean, that is, when it mistakes what always must be a finite and conditioned apprehension of the transcendent for the transcendent ground itself,

Il ne peut pas y avoir un développement infini dans un univers fini.

If I could conceive it possible that this universe were governed by a wisdom no greater than I am able to comprehend, I should not be able to believe in a God of infinite wisdom; for finite wisdom cannot comprehend infinite wisdom.

God is infinite and we are finite; and, at the best, we can only know him a very little.

He had only one life. That was a basic and relentless fact. An eternity of 'something or other' lay behind him, and an equally obscure eternity of 'something or other' lay in front of him.

Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.

We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run out and once it starts, it cannot stop until it's all gone.

If God were corporeal, He would consist of atoms, and would not be one; or He would be comparable to other beings: but a comparison implies the existence of similar and of dissimilar elements, and God would thus not be one. A corporeal God would be finite, and an external power would be required to define those limits.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by and turned to the infinite.

The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

There, the sublime, unreachable mysteries of the Universe are haggled over by poor finite minds who cannot call their lives their own. There, nation wars against nation, creed against creed, soul against soul. Alas, fated planet! how soon shalt thou be extinct, and thy place shall know thee no more!

Ive never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesnt matter. Life is to be lived.