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Letter "I" » infinity
«I cannot help it;- in spite of myself, infinity torments me.»
«God is the tangential point between zero and infinity»
«The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.»
Author: Carlos Castaneda
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
average, calls, certainty, confidence man, fellow, hooked, hooking, hook up, hook up with, humbleness, Infinities, infinity, onlooker, seeks, self confidence, the self, warrior
«I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.»
Author: Edgar Quinet
(Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
display, fatuity, infinity, mistrust
«We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.»
Author: H. P Lovecraft
(Author)
| About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Ignorance,
Intelligence,
Science
| Keywords:
Infinities, infinity, in the midst, island, live on, meant, midst, placid, seas, voyage
«I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him.»
«It is known that there are an infinte number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely products of a deranged imagination.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| Keywords:
amount, another planet, at odds, average, deranged, deranging, divided, divided by, divided up, finite, Finite number, follows, from time to time, From Zero, however, infinite, infinite number, Infinities, infinity, inhabited, inhabits, known, near, number, odds, one of them, our planet, planets, population, populations, products, space, The Planets, the universe, whole number, worlds, zero, zeros
«Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.»
«By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
confronting, guiding, include, infinity, inviting, irreducible, mysteries, spiritual life, stretch
«It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
infinity, meditated, meditating, mysterious, ritual, seemed, solemnities, solemnity, transaction, transactions
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