Quotes on Infinite

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

Until now the theory of infinite series in general has been very badly grounded. One applies all the operations to infinite series as if they were finite; but is that permissible? I think not. Where is it demonstrated that one obtains the differential of an infinite series by taking the differential of each term? Nothing is easier than to give instances where this is not so.

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what's going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it's going to end, how can any human know what God wants?

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.

O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous.

They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.

Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

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.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.