#infinite

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#axiom #been #important #infinitely #little

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#about #former #human #i #infinite

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#infinite #into #out

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#duality #finite #inescapable #infinite #necessary

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#art #because #command #creation #does

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#better #bright #child #day #forward

Believing time is on our side is difficult because the lens of our lives is too narrowly focused. We see only what is in our direct view, whether trials or bliss. We hold so tightly to the positive experiences for fear we won’t have another just as good and those that are negative we hope will disappear. With our vision set to the crown of our nose, we miss being exposed to a world of possibility lying in the vastness of our periphery. ↗

— Tina Leigh

#time #time-on-our-side #experience

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. ↗

— Georg Cantor

#concerning #defended #frequently #held #i

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#beautiful #beautiful life #before #better #difficult