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infinity
«The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.»
Author: Georg Cantor
| About:
Infinity,
Mathematics
| Keywords:
all-around, infinity, inhabits, myopia, sustains
«There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.»
Author: Rod Sterling
(Host, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
dimension, fifth, fifths, ground, Infinities, infinity, man of science, middle, science, shadow, space, superstition, timeless, vast, Vaster, vastest
«Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
infinity, known as, mysteries
«Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.»
Author: Swami Sivananda
(Founder, Monk, Physician)
| About:
Meditation
| Keywords:
dissolution, finitude, infinity, meditation, merging, objectification, without thinking
«Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
| Keywords:
emerges, engulf, engulfed, engulfs, infinity, nothingness
«The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.»
«I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.»
«The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Humanity,
People,
Stupidity
| Keywords:
comprehend, extent, Infinities, infinity, stupidity
«The divine attributes are first developed in ourselves, and thence transferred to our Creator. The idea of God, sublime and awful as it is, is the idea of our own spiritual nature, purified and enlarged to infinity. In ourselves are the elements of the Divinity.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
attributes, enlarged, infinity, IS IS, purified, The Elements, transferred