#infinity

The problem with introspection is that it has no end. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#ego #infinity #introspection #meditation #self

To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. ↗

— William Blake

#flower #grain #grain of sand #hands #heaven

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#beings #come #creator #even #fire

O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (“The Testimony of the Suns”) ↗

— George Sterling

#life #space #time #life

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

until only infinity remained of beauty ↗

— John Ashbery

#infinity #beauty

We are born to believe We can’t change a thing We can’t, and we never could. But before you believe The things you believe You must understand To be understood. ↗

— John C. O’Callaghan

#ode-to-infinity #the-maine #change

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#infinity #life

Who was it who said, "I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul's reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish?" Whoever it was, I agree with him. ↗

— A. Edward Newton

#buying-books #infinity #reading #soul #diversity

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. ↗

— Alan Watts

#duty #full #god #idea #infinity