#infini

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse. ↗

— Rudolph Valentino

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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. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

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I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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Language makes infinite use of finite media. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation. ↗

— David Icke

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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me. ↗