Finite Quotes

Life is finite, While knowledge is infinite.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

Feeling and experiencing infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life - this is what you are here for

If we forgive God for his crime against us, which is to have made us finite creatures, He will forgive our crime against him, which is that we are finite creatures.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Growth has failed on its own terms. You can't have infinite growth in a world of finite resources.

But the macro-economy is not the Whole. It too is a Part, a part of the larger natural economy, the ecosphere, and its growth does inflict opportunity costs on the finite Whole that must be counted.

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.

Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

This universe is the wreckage of the infinite on the shores of the finite.

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

Between the finite and the infinite The missing link of Love has left a void. Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join In one continued chain of endless life.

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

Courage is a finite resource, it is exhausted by the terrors we face.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

Every infinity... is made finite to God.

We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.

The progress of mathematics can be viewed as progress from the infinite to the finite.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

Water is a finite resource that is essential in the advancement of agriculture, and is vital to human life.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

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

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.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

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

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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