#infinity

In God there is an infinitude of things which I cannot comprehend, nor possibly even reach in any way by thought; for it is the nature of the infinite that my nature, which is finite and limited, should not comprehend it. ↗

— René Descartes

#infinity #limitations #reason #thought #nature

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. ↗

— Robert Wilensky

#internet #monkeys #shakespeare #internet

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. ↗

— Michael Jackson

#creation #every #exist #expression #forms

Each work has its own space, which should neither be conceived as a sort of cage nor regarded as extending to infinity. ↗

— Marino Marini

#conceived #each #extending #infinity #neither

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 is a meaningless word: except – it states / The mind is capable of performing / an endless process of addition. ↗

— Louis Zukofsky

#infinity #intelligence #math #mathematics #mind

Does there exist an Infinity outside ourselves? Is that infinity One, immanent and permanent, necessarily having substance, since He is infinite and if He lacked matter He would be limited, necessarily possessing intelligence since He is infinite and, lacking intelligence, He would be in that sense finite. Does this Infinity inspire in us the idea of essense, while to ourselves we can only attribute the idea of existence? In order words, is He not the whole of which we are but the part? ↗

— Victor Hugo

#infinity #spirituality #inspirational

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #life #tfios #the-fault-in-our-stars #life

If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. ↗

— William Blake

#perception #marriage

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. ↗

— Voltaire

#consciousness #dissolution #eternal #infinity #knowing