Quotes About Inf

The self must be destroyed, brought down to nothing, in order for self-transcendence to begin. Then the self can begin to relate itself to powers beyond itself. It has to thrash around in its finitude, it has to die, in order to question that finitude, in order to see beyond it. To what? Kierkegaard answers: to infinitude, to absolute transcendence, the the Ultimate Power of Creation which made finite creatures.

Up up up and into nowhere

PUPIL: I can count to . . . to infinity. PROFESSOR: That's not possible, miss. PUPIL: Well then, let's say to sixteen. PROFESSOR: That is enough. One must know one's limits. Count

Forever doesn't exist because it hasn't started yet.

It seemed that all the time in the world had passed, and that none had passed at all.

She hadn't meant to come so close in all that vastness.

My vegetable love will grow Vaster than empires, and more slow.

incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Is death like the event horizon of a black hole, where you fall forever?

We only think of days and months to keep track of times that aren't now. Fuck days. Fuck months. This was how it was going to be from now on: forever.

If someone was to tell you that the sum of all the numbers was minus one twelfth I suspect you might imagine the person was mildly crazy. Well, this is actually an established mathematical fact: the sum of all the numbers is minus one twelfth (or, in decimals, -0.083).

Fractals are the geometry of chaos, and they are found throughout Nature.

The clue to unification is the universe itself. "Uni" means "one". The universe is the one thing that exists. It is everything that exists.

although we're heading in the same direction, we will never meet again. So great is the sea and so tiny are we.

The past, present and future lurk in every moment of time. Eternity is hidden in every moment of time. Do you understand?' 'No.' 'Never mind.

Cada momento do tempo carrega em si o passado, o presente e o futuro. Cada momento do tempo carrega em si a eternidade. Entende? - Não. - Não faz mal.

every being has its own continuation in nature and survives in some way or another. The end of one is the beginning of another, there are no limits to possibility; or at least nature doesn't know any.

Dobrze jest ?y? w krainach nieoczywistych, poniewa? ich granice zawieraj? w sobie wi?cej przestrzeni, ni? wskazuje geografia. To s? otch?anie nieznanego, to jest niesko?czona dal domys?ów, uciekaj?cy horyzont wyobra?e? i fatamorgana s?odkich przes?dów, którym nigdy nie sprosta rzeczywisto??.

We exist in the midst of eternity all the time.

She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I suppose everybody has a mental picture of the days of the week, some seeing them as a circle, some as an endless line, and others again, for all I know, as triangles and cubes. Mine is a wavy line proceeding to infinity, dipping to Wednesday which is the colour of old silver dark with polishing and rising again to a pale gold Sunday. This day has a feeling in my picture of warmth and light breezes and sunshine and afternoons that stretch to infinity and mornings full of far-off bells.

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.

We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.