Finite Quotes

Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

The nature will continue, it's our existence that is finite and you are given this gift of life and you make your way with it, but fate and natural disasters will continue on.

For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite.

I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of the flesh which are real and finite.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.

Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever.

Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

Rather than continuing to base our economy on a finite supply of dead things, we can base it on sources that are practically infinite and eternal: the sun, the moon, and the Earth's inner fire.

Ask what Time is, it is nothing else but something of eternal duration become finite, measurable and transitory.

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

We are finite and God will not call us everywhere or to support every worthy cause. And real needs are not far from us.

Our minds are finite and far from noble. Knowing their limits can help us to become better reasoners.

It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

If we live out of our memory, we're tied to the past and to that which is finite. When we live out of our imagination, we're tied to that which is infinite.

God is consistent with his nature and declared purposes in Scripture, but he is not limited to our finite understanding of him or the ways we think he should work.

In retrospect, everything is finite, but prospectively, there are infinite possibilities. I guess that's what makes life hopeful.

Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

Global warming competes with cancer and competes with AIDS for a finite amount of money. Nobody ever won that fight by saying: My issue isn't important.

Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet

My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights.

I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

In order that we finite beings may apprehend the Emporer He translates His glory into multiple forms - into stars, woods, waters, beasts, and the bodies of men.

Poetry is a tracing of the trajectories of a finite sound to the infinite points of its echoes.

Every life is finite, Will.

We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

More simply said, the finite does not add to the infinite but merely expresses the power of the infinite in a limited mode.

We were an extraordinary paradox. We are finite creatures made for the infinite.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.

The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'

The past is a finite resource.

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

What has dawned on me is that focusing on the "finite planet" frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.

The finite forms have fallen away and we have become God.

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised it becomes stronger.

We are many, many selves. We're not just a finite being. The selves don't necessarily speak in words. But they are you.

The tonal is also endless and limitless. We like to think of it as being finite so we feel better.