Quotes About Finite

Your total life is nothing without activity. When you are not acting, you are dead. You act in sleep also. You act through dreams. You act through mental vibrations. You are continually vibrating. The moment you don't vibrate you are dead. Death is nothing but nonvibration of a finite unit. That's all death is. S

Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.

Each minute the last minute.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

Our knowledge can only be finite while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Life is but a day at most.

The experience of life in a finite, limited body is specifically for the purpose of discovering and manifesting supernatural existence.

Perhaps so many journals had piled up in the lighthouse because on some level most came, in time, to recognize the futility of language. Not just in Area X but against the rightness of the lived-in moment, the instant of touch, of connection for which words were such a sorrowful disappointment, so inadequate an expression of both the finite and the infinite.

As we have seen, Pseudo-Dionysius claimed that because of God's infinite transcendence, God cannot reveal Himself to man. Immanuel Kant, on the other hand, claimed that the knowledge of God is impossible because of the epistemological limitations of finite man. Either way, the gap between an infinite God and finite man is too vast for either God or man to cross.

There was nothing to make him last a long time.

Estranged from Beauty—none can be— For Beauty is Infinity— And power to be finite ceased Before Identity was leased.

The very word 'disappears' implies that the universe is, so to speak, finite, and that it is possible to leave it. But no-o-othing" (he deliberately drew the word out) "can ever leave the universe. And nothing can enter it. Not a single speck of dust can appear or disappear. Matter is transformed into energy, and energy into matter

Life is the time spent before death

My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."3

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.

The future is no longer indefinite. Time has become very finite to me and very precious.

Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all! Not for such hopes and fears Annulling youth's brief years, Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark! Rather I prize the doubt Low kinds exist without, Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark. Poor vaunt of life indeed, Were man but formed to feed On joy, to solely seek and find and feast; Such feasting ended, then As sure an end to men.

Willpower is more than just a metaphor; self-control is a finite resource.

Love was foolish and inevitable. We were just waiting to be shattered by it. The days were finite, full of awe.

Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.