#infini

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived. ↗

— William Hamilton

#conceived #faculties #god #infinite #limitation

Were I more conversant with literature and its great names, I could go on quoting them ad infinitum and acknowledge my debt for the merit you have been generous enough to find in my work. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#ad #been #could #debt #enough

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

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

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. ↗

— Jess Walter

#perception #beauty

Sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #infinite #beauty

That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#free #freedom #infinite #freedom

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#human-nature #humor #infinity #philosophy #science

...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#imagine #infinite #universe #imagination