Finitude Quotes

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. - William Wordsworth

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. - Thomas Carlyle

The finite mind does not require to grasp the infinitude of truth, but only to go forward from light to light. - Peter Bayne

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. - Swami Sivananda

Love burns across the infinitude. - Meriel Stelliger

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. - George Santayana

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude. - Soren Kierkegaard

Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too. - Robert Browning