(107 quotes found)
“'Progress never defines its ultimate objective but thrusts its victims at once into an infinite series,' Mr. [John Crowe] Ransom said' 'Industrialism,' he declared, 'is rightfully a menial, of almost miraculous cunning, but no intelligence; it needs to be strongly governed, or it will destroy the economy of the household. Only a community of tough conservative habit can master it.”
Richard Weaver
“There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.”
Oscar Wilde
“When the doors of perception are cleansed, man will see things as they truly are, infinite.”
William Blake
“It is infinitely easier to criticize than to create.”
John McCormick
“You are infinite valor and the boundless might. You pervade everything, and therefore You are everywhere and in everything.”
Bhagavad Gita
“Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great”
Edgar Quinet
“Why do an infinite number of monkeys always want to type "Hamlet"? What's wrong with "Macbeth"? Why not something by Dickens or Poe?”
Tom Knapp
“The Divine intellect indeed knows infinitely more propositions [than we can ever know]. But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.”
Galileo Galilei
“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.”
C.S. Lewis
“The dandelion's pallid tube/ Astonishes the grass,/ And winter instantly becomes/ An infinite alas.”
Emily Dickinson
