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Letter "F" » finite
«What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.»
Author: Georg Cantor
| About:
Infinity,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
ascending, ascends, assert, asserts, defined, definite, demonstrated, distinguishable, earlier, finite, Finite number, following, infinite number, modes, numbers, supra, unbounded, well-defined
«The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned think the God by analogy to principles and so worship Him in the form of Love or Truth. But the wise think the God not at all. They know that thought, which is finite, can only do violence to the God, which is infinite.It is enough, they say, that the God thinks them.»
«We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Disappointment
| Keywords:
disappointment, finite
«The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.»
«The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in the beauty of the flowers. It is in the soul of man.»
«We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.»
«Where is the thread now? Off again! / The old trick! only I discern - / Infinite passion, and the pain / Of finite hearts that yearn.»
«The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated [i.e. mortal] body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
bosom, Death of, e'en, finite, generation, glass, go after, i.e., I E, mortal, realities, reflected, temporal, There exist, The Eternal, vegetable, vegetate, vegetated, vegetates, vegetating
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