Top 190 Infinite Quotes

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

The amazing thing about love and attention and encouragement and grace and success and joy is that these things are infinite. We get a new supply every single morning, and so we can give it away all day. We never, ever have to monitor the supply of others or grab or hoard.

While there are corporal descriptions of what the afterlife is like in Christianity, Islam and Judaism, what’s going on there is the finite trying to describe the infinite. If God knows everything, started everything and is the only one who knows how it’s going to end, how can any human know what God wants?

For whatever reason, when it came out in 1995, ‘Infinite Jest’ became a cultural event. It was the massive book that was ‘cool‘ for all the Gen Xers to read.

Everything I do, I do infinite percent.

Like many of the ideas that mattered in the American Revolution, extraterrestrials got their start in antiquity. The Greek philosopher Epicurus speculated that the universe must be infinite, eternal and abounding in ‘worlds‘ just like our own.

Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

I truly believe that we have infinite levels of power that we don’t even know are available to us.

I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If there is in Heaven an infinite being, he never will be satisfied with the worship of cowards and hypocrites.

I’m a firm believer in the idea that there are a limited amount of human stories that we tell – there’s about seven of them – and of course, there’s variations on those stories, and they can take place in infinite places.

To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope – all those people we had to read in college English courses – to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

The power of imagination is infinite.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what’s happening up there.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

The scientific issues that engage people most are the truly fundamental ones: is the universe infinite? Is life just a sideshow in the cosmos? What happened before the Big Bang? Everyone is flummoxed by such questions, so there is, in a sense, no gulf between experts and the rest.

When you speak about Real Madrid, you talk about a lot of money – almost infinite funds – something very unique in the world.

That’s the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It’s a living thing.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

I use a lot of different words for God – infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And ‘God’ is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It’s the great mystery.

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.

The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural… The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Use your imagination, and you’ll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

The human mind has infinite capacity to rationalize, and evil characters just push that boundary a bit. Whatever they’re doing, they think it makes sense to do it, and they think they have a good reason to do it. In short, they feel justified.

With Justin.TV, infinite people told us that it wouldn’t work, and to some extent they were right. But it was still a good investment.

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

The story of Basinski’s ‘Disintegration Loops‘ – tapes that destroyed themselves in the transfer to digital – is a parable (again almost too perfect) for the switch from the fragility of analogue to the infinite replicability of digital.

Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

The infinite variety in the properties of the solid materials we find in the world is really the expression of the infinite variety of the ways in which the atoms and molecules can be tied together, and of the strength of those ties.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we’re worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

It seemed like my favourite kind of job – a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not.

We don’t know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It’s something the human mind can’t really grasp. It’s statistically impossible that there’s not life on other planets.

What we call the ‘world’ and the ‘universe’ is only one frequency range in an infinite number sharing the same space. The interdimensional entities I write about are able to move between these frequencies or dimensions and manipulate our lives.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

I have to always check back in with my imagination just to remember that I have this infinite potential, and I can do anything, and anything is possible.

More choice doesn’t make us happy, and we understand that no one has infinite choices about how to live life.

There are few things that have filled me with such breathless awe as flying in the black of night across oceans and continents and looking out my cockpit window upon the infinite glory of millions of stars.

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past – except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Thus passing through the infinite varieties of space we reach the Divine space which is absolutely free from all dimensions and constitutes the meeting point of all infinities.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it’s by way of heartbreak, sometimes it’s by way of injustice, sometimes it’s by way of fate. There’s an infinite number of ways to examine it.

I’ve been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom’s death into a healthier perspective. I really need to let her go, let her go into the infinite. I can’t keep hanging onto this rope that connects us.

Lots of people dream big and talk about big bold ideas but never do anything. I judge people by what they’ve done. The ratio of something to nothing is infinite. So just do something.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

The country should be more inclusive, not less inclusive, and over an infinite timeline, it becomes more inclusive. It doesn’t always happen at once.

We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God’s not there, if the infinite isn’t available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of ‘infinitude’ that can only be a lie.

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you’re working on it, and then it’s suddenly very finite, and it’s done.

A common mistake among new entrepreneurs who have raised large rounds is that they have essentially infinite resources.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.

The sinews of war are infinite money.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

America is a living idea. It isn’t only the tenets of its founding, but also the terms of its future. Every day, we make America. Seeking to preserve and enshrine one vision of this country from one period of its past robs it of what makes it magical: its infinite possibility for adjustment.

The truth is, it was my Nanna and Grandad who helped me get over my mum‘s death. Surrounding me with infinite, unquestioning love, they were classic kinship carers.

I was never able to get through Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I’ve never been able to make it through. And I love the Smashing Pumpkins, they’re one of my favorite bands ever, but I’ve never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through.

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

Sir Isaac Newton gave the extraterrestrials their biggest shot in the arm when he embraced the infinite universe as the basis for his hugely influential system of physics. Even so, the aliens of the early modern period remained creatures of philosophy rather than science.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

It’s an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

I’m constantly thinking about the role, and there’s an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it’s hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.

Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.

By converging people, process, and data, the benefits the Internet of Everything delivers to humanity are seemingly infinite. Imagine being able to track and understand, and then predict, long-term weather patterns. Farmers will be able to plant crops that have the greatest chance for success.

Our spiritual attitude is determined by our conception of our relation to infinite spirit.

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Human capacity for not thinking about what we’re doing is infinite.

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

There are so many double standards that seem to be applied only to female MPs. I’ve had infinite comments about what I’m wearing when the focus should be on what I’m saying.

In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought… I must put a roof on this toilet.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.

If a show is wickedly, hugely popular, like ‘Mad Men,’ I assume that the masses, in their infinite inferiority to me, don’t know what good TV is and that everyone is just brainwashed.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There’s always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Before digital and mobile communications effectively tethered us to an invisible, infinite ‘wire,’ even those with the most hectic schedules were usually willing to answer the phone if they happened to be home when it rang.

The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.

The main influence on a child’s palate may no longer be a parent but a series of food manufacturers whose products – despite their illusion of infinite choice – deliver a monotonous flavour hit, quite unlike the more varied flavours of traditional cuisine.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here – the Infinite.

To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.

For most of my life I’ve liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that’s running on principles that we don’t even understand.

Infinite power just isn’t very interesting, no matter what game you’re playing. It’s much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

It’s not just that everyone has a story. It’s that everyone has a thousand stories. Everyone is infinite.

Sly Stone doesn’t make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

Laws to protect ‘public health‘ are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I’m sure there is an infinite number of men who Ann Wolfe can knock out. I’m one of them.

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

I was not thinking about infinite multipliers when I was 10. But I did have a father who was a Ph.D. in commerce and finance and an intellectual man. And so I had a feeling, probably about the time I went to college, that I would try to be a scholar and teacher, but I didn’t know which field.

If a thing loves, it is infinite.

Silicon Valley has infinite access to capital and can lose money indefinitely.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.

We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that’s where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it’s instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.

I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us- everything that exists – proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.

I suppose for me, with ‘Djesse,’ I realized fairly early in the process that I also needed a character to walk this path, which in some ways is me, and in some ways is not me. I think of Djesse a bit like the infinite child who can see everything and walk into everything as light as a feather and just alchemize.

It wasn’t until I got my first son that I wasn’t really able to play video games because when you have a child at home, there are infinite other things you should be doing.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants – that that’s our purpose.

A lot of the books that have been written about Silicon Valley are really good. Michael Malone’s books are incredible. I think his ‘Infinite Loop‘ is the best book that’s been written about Apple.

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven‘t explored yet. It’s infinite what we can apply our creativity to.

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.

If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.

Even if we didn’t have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we’re going to run out. They’re finite, whereas solar and wind are infinite.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

Human experience is infinite. Lives are infinite. Stories are infinite. Just because one story has gravity in it doesn’t mean you can’t write a different one with gravity in it.

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.

Manufacturing is finite, but human intellect is infinite. Textile is all about manufacturing, and industries like pharmaceuticals are all about human intellect.

It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.

I had to be reminded that the guitar is infinite. It never stops teaching you, it never stops being difficult; there’s an unlimited amount of things to learn, and you’ll never master it.

For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it’s hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the ‘more’ menu on the Gmail page that they’ve had to go and add a final item called ‘even more.’

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.

People really are looking for this perfect sort of dream person, but it’s hard to go out every night or make the effort to meet people in your hometown, if you haven’t already met them all. Online there’s this infinite possibility of meeting this person who, no matter where they live, you’re meant to be with.

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet do they not say, ‘God is infinite?’ If God be infinite, no finite being can have communication or relation with him.

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.

Like a blazing comet, I’ve traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.

Painting bodies with the patterns of Kusama’s hallucinations obliterated their individual selves and returned them to the infinite universe.

The price we are willing to pay for safety cannot be infinite. It is distasteful to put a price on human life, but the more we spend on safety, the less we will have for our other goals.

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.

With any character I have played, there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

I love the infinite variety of New York, how it’s the epicenter of so many worlds.

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor’s art infinite.

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.