Quotes About Inf

The great commander can certainly move fast and strike like lightning, but his art of war consists first and foremost in moderation, measured geometric order, carefully weighed-up knowledge of circumstances and rules, a tranquil 'thinking things over'; without this there is little use in being acquainted with that 'infinity of situations' in which a soldier finds himself.

There can never be a clock at the center of the Universe to which everyone can set their watches. Your entire life can be the blink of an eye to an alien who leaves Earth traveling close to the speed of light, then returns an hour later to find that you have been dead for centuries.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

That which is imagined can never be lost.

I have no name for what circles so perfectly

No, she was not like a lover to me, for I forgot that she was beautiful, that we had come together in despite of a man, in the deep and growing indifference we felt toward that man. We were join in an infinity so pure that I never thought of death...

Traveling on every path, you will not find the boundaries of soul by going; so deep is its measure.

The beginning is the end.

The soul is undiscovered though explored forever to a depth beyond report.

Gods live past our meager death. We die past their ceaseless living.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I.

In eternity there is no time, only an instant long enough for a joke.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

The present issues from the past, and the future from the present. Everything is made one by this continuity. Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.

know my days are numbered, but not every day is a real number.

AM I know my days are numbered, but not every day is a real number.

a grey wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream

He will remember his first sight of the open sea: a gray wrinkled vastness, like the residue of a dream.

All the rivers run into the sea, but the seas are not yet full.

I didn't want to die, ever. I wanted to watch a million suns set, love a million women, walk down a million city streets and lonely roads. A thousand lifetimes wouldn't be enough for that. Sometimes, convinced I had come down with some fatal illness, I was afraid I wouldn't even have one.

?i de-atunci e numai toamna. Mereu, necontenit.

Jamás, al igual que para siempre, es un término tan grande que escapa a la comprensión de los mortales.