Infinity Quotes

The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity. (15) (Epicurus)
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. View quote
William Blake
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. View quote
Jean Cocteau
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. View quote
Umberto Eco
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity... Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. View quote
Emil Cioran
The creator, if he should love his creature, would be loving only a part of himself; but the creature, praising the creator, praises an infinity beyond himself. View quote
Olaf Stapledon
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom? View quote
Lord Byron
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect. View quote
Adam Clarke
Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. View quote
Fred Rogers
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always. View quote
Jacques Derrida
Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, "You know math, huh? Tell me something I've always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, "The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity' as if it were a number. It's not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?' I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,' ‘truth,' ‘beauty'-those are not numbers.”. View quote
John Derbyshire
The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable; not concealed, but incomprehensible; it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure unsearchable sea. View quote
John Ruskin
The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still. (G. K. Chesterton)
Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; - for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret. View quote
Emil Cioran
The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me. View quote
Edith Sitwell