The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place.
~By Mike Figgis ~
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
~By Hippolyte Taine ~
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
~By Conrad Hall ~
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
~By George Saintsbury ~
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
~By William E. Simon ~
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible?
~By James C. Maxwell ~
All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.
~By Gianni Agnelli ~
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
~By Mark Twain ~
While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.
~By Eric Butterworth ~
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.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
~By John Strachan ~
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.
~By Henry Ford ~
Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
~By William Harvey ~
The sinews of war are infinite money.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.
~By William E. Simon ~
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
~By Peter Greenaway ~
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
~By Sydney Smith ~
I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
~By Georg Cantor ~
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
~By Salvador Dali ~
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.
~By Paul Twitchell ~
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.
~By James Newman ~
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
~By Julio Cortazar ~
I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
~By Arthur Hays Sulzberger ~
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I've never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they're one of my favorite bands ever, but I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.
~By John Wozniak ~
There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
~By Andrew Denton ~
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
~By Francis Bacon ~
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!
~By Daniel Pinkwater ~
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
~By Ellen Terry ~
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
~By Jared Diamond ~
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
~By Norbert Wiener ~
When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
~By Zig Ziglar ~
The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
~By Ken Hensley ~
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
~By E. F. Schumacher ~
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
~By P. J. O'Rourke ~
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
~By Victor Hugo ~
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
~By Knute Rockne ~
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
~By Bodhidharma ~
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
~By Paul Tillich ~
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
~By Simone Weil ~
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
~By Christiaan Barnard ~
These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
~By Samuel Hopkins ~
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
~By Robert Browning Hamilton ~
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
~By George Bancroft ~
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
~By David Hilbert ~
It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
~By Yahoo Serious ~
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
~By Edgar Quinet ~
A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.
~By Paul Valery ~
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
~By Anna Freud ~
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
~By Franz Kafka ~
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
~By Eric Schmidt ~
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
~By Charles Inglis ~
The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
~By Voltaire ~
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