Life is nothing death, everything. Yet there is nothing which is death, independent of life. It is precisely this absence of autonomous, distinct reality which makes death universal it has no realm of its own, it is omnipresent, like everything which lacks identity, limit, and bearing an indecent infinitude.
Quotes about infinitude (9 Quotes)
Listen within yourself and look into the infinitude of space and time. There can be heard the songs of the Constellations, the voices of the Numbers, and the harmonies of the Spheres.
A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
Whether we be young or old, Our destiny, our being's heart and home, Is with infinitude, and only there; With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something evermore about to be.
All finite things reveal infinitude The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The afterlight upon iceburdened pines Odor of basswood upon a mountain slope, A scene beloved of bees Silence of water above a sunken tree The pure serene of memory of one man, A ripple widening from a single stone Winding around the waters of the world.
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.