Infinite Quotes - page 12

Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite. (Hans Urs von Balthasar)
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite. View quote
Hans Urs von Balthasar
Religion translates metaphysical or universal truths into dogmatic language; now though dogma is not accessible to all men in its intrinsic truth, which can only be directly attained by the Intellect, it is nonetheless accessible through faith, which is, for the great majority, the only possible mode of participation in the Divine Truths. As for intellectual knowledge, which proceeds neither from belief nor from a process of reasoning, it goes beyond dogma in the sense that, without ever contradicting the latter, it penetrates its internal dimension, that is, the infinite Truth that dominates all forms. View quote
Frithjof Schuon
To have a sense of the sacred is to be aware that all qualities or values not only proceed from the Infinite but also attract towards It. View quote
Frithjof Schuon
The cosmic, and more particularly the earthly, function of beauty is to actualize in the intelligent and sensitive creature the Platonic recollection of the archetypes, and thus open the way towards the luminous Night of the one and infinite Essence. View quote
Frithjof Schuon
This morning the music of a brass band which had stopped under my windows moved me almost to tears. It exercised an indefinable, nostalgic power over me; it set me dreaming of another world, of infinite passion and supreme happiness. Such impressions are the echoes of Paradise in the soul; memories of ideal spheres whose sad sweetness ravishes and intoxicates the heart. O Plato! O Pythagoras! ages ago you heard these harmonies, surprised these moments of inward ecstasy, - knew these divine transports! If music thus carries us to heaven, it is because music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To love life and men as God loves them - for the sake of their infinite possibilities, to wait like Him, to judge like Him, without passing judgment, to obey the order when it is given and never look back. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
God's knowledge extends to things not in existence, and includes also the infinite. View quote
Maimonides
What another being is life when we have found out our Father ; and if we work, it is beneath His eye, and if we play, it is in the light and encouragement of His smile. Earth's sunshine is heaven's radiance, and the stars of night as if the beginning of the beatific vision; so soft, so sweet, so gentle, so reposeful, so almost infinite have all things become, because we have found our Father in our God. View quote
Frederick William Faber
The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life. (Paulo Coelho)
First develop a strategy that utilizes everything around you. The best way to prepare for a challenge is to cultivate the ability to call on an infinite variety of responses. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. View quote
Blaise Pascal
The disciple must break the glass, or better the mirror, the reflection, his infinite speculation on the master. And start to speak. View quote
Jacques Derrida
At the present time man's path lies through space, and Suprematism is a colour metaphor in its infinite abyss. [1916]. View quote
Kazimir Malevich
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive. (Juan Ramón Jiménez)
We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms. View quote
Jonathan Tropper
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. View quote
Sylvia Plath
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security. View quote
Sylvia Plath
And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city. View quote
Haruki Murakami