Quotes About Minuteness

The role of the infinitely small is infinitely large.

Simplicity! He is as simple as a spider's web.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

the great is beyond ten feet square, the small enters the tiniest atom.

even one centimetre can make an awful lot of difference when you don't have many to spare.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

The void is 'not-being,' and no part of 'what is' is a 'not-being,'; for what 'is' in the strict sense of the term is an absolute plenum. This plenum, however, is not 'one': on the contrary, it is a 'many' infinite in number and invisible owing to the minuteness of their bulk.

The minuteness of the human race within the vastness of the universe is not an incongruity because the vastness of the universe is not about the greatness of man but about the greatness of God. Man has his greatness, but it lies in his capacity to know and worship the God who calls the universe "the work of [his] fingers" (Ps. 8:3).

The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. How small, thought Winston, how small it always was!

I think I'm more concerned with things that are very big and things that are very small than with all the stuff in between.

Beneath their strict conventionalisation one could grasp the minute and accurate observation and graphic skill of the artists; and indeed, the very conventions themselves served to symbolise and accentuate the real essence or vital differentiation of every object delineated.

It takes so much to make you feel big in this world. It only takes an ocean to make you feel tiny.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

So does a whole world with all its greatnesses and littnlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

Everything's much too big here,' thought Moominmamma. 'Or perhaps I'm too small.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

not enough to make a flea a waltzing jacket.

On 18 you've got to drive it up a gnat's ass.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great but because nothing is too small for Him either.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is also great because nothing is too small.