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finite
«Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
| About:
Life,
Mind,
Purpose
| Keywords:
finite, finitude, grasp, infinitude, infinitudes, possibilities, surrounded
«The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opinion the best method of defining the finite irrational numbers is wholly disimilar to, and I might even say in priciple the same as, my method described above of introducing trasfinite numbers. One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers; they are like each other in their innermost being; for the former like the latter are definite delimited forms or modifications of the actual infinite.»
Author: Georg Cantor
| About:
Infinity,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
delimited, finite, Finite number, infinite number, introducing, irrational, modification, modifications, unconditionally
«Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.»
Author: Karl Popper
| Keywords:
finite
«The finite mind does not require to grasp the infinitude of truth, but only to go forward from light to light»
«The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this ... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite q»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
assigning, discuss, finite
«No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point»
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
| Keywords:
finite, point of reference, reference, references, reference point, with reference to
«There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where the idea and the form, the within and the without, are united; where infinite becomes finite, yet not»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Existence
| Keywords:
contradictions, finite, Meeting Point, movement, mystery, stillness, united
«The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
agent, finite, Human perception, primary, prime, repetition