Infinitude 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

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

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

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. - John Milton

At the moment I am looking into astrology, which seems indispensable for a proper understanding of mythology. There are strange and wondrous things in these lands of darkness. Please, don't worry about my wanderings in these infinitudes. I shall return laden with rich booty for our knowledge of the human psyche. - Carl Gustav Jung