#infinite

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#almost #am #build #capable #future

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#causes #coronation #effects #infinite #literature

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. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bury #cannot #comes #construe #cunning

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#difficult #difficult task #distribution #i #infinitely

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#aught #bliss #burial #closely #else

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#deal #examine #fate #finite number #great

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. ↗

— James Newman

#mathematics #properly #treated #unless #unruly

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. ↗

— Edgar Quinet

#condemns #depth #discovers #great #infinitely

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. ↗

— Quintilian

#body #differs #gifts #infinite #mind

I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication. ↗

— Huston Smith

#answer #any #authentic #dedication #difference