Quotes About Finitude

The fact that man never is satisfied with any stage of his finite development, the fact that nothing finite can hold him, although finitude is his destiny, indicates the indissoluble relation of everything finite to being-itself.

Man is essentially 'finite freedom'; freedom not in the sense of indeterminacy but in the sense of being able to determine himself through decisions in the center of his being. Man, as finite freedom, is free within the contingencies of his finitude. But within these limits he is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become, to fulfill his destiny.

“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?

For when only a few years are past I will go the way of no return.

They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”