#infini

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

— Edmond de Goncourt

#despair #face #infinity #perhaps

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man. ↗

— David Hilbert

#infinite #man #moved #other #profoundly

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

— Howard Hodgkin

#copies #find #gallery #i #infinitely

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. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#commenced #dread #enthusiast #even #infinitely

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#infinite #into #man #molded #something

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ↗

— Hippolyte Taine

#cats #i #infinitely #many #philosophers

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#himself #infinity #now #now and then #particle

Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we put ourselves in service to something larger than ourselves; it is one of those larger somethings. That's its rhetorical genius, and is how Wallace gets his self-help “to fly at such a high altitude”: Like AA, it is theory and praxis in a single stroke. Or: It is what it says, which may be the purest form of art. ↗

— Garth Risk Hallberg

#infinite-jest #art

until only infinity remained of beauty ↗

— John Ashbery

#infinity #beauty

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#feeling-infinite #happiness #infinite #magic #beauty