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Infinity Quotes

Trying to hold the endless in one thought.

The opening question is almost a mission statement, what does culture want but to make infinity comprehensible, and the poetic idea of infinity is set above anything any single creed can claim.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Quotes by Umberto Eco

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

Quotes by Ron Eglash

Able Quotes

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity.

Quotes by Pat Metheny

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Quotes by Joseph Brodsky

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.

Quotes by Jean Cocteau

Accept Quotes

I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.

Quotes by Helen Sharman

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

Quotes by Edmond de Goncourt

My very first real job in the industry was as a production assistant on a show called 'Infinity Factory' in 1976.

Quotes by Bonnie Hammer

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Quotes by Bertrand Russell

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Quotes by Ariel Durant

Act Quotes

Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know that there are no solutions up to infinity.

Quotes by Andrew Wiles

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Quotes by Alfred Jarry

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Quotes by Alan Watts

Frequently Asked Questions

What is this infinity quotes page exploring?
The difficulty of actually grasping the infinite, whether through culture, poetry, personal belief, or a spiritual image of countless sparks returning to their source.
Why do people search for quotes about infinity?
Infinity is one of those ideas easier to gesture at than define, so readers search for quotes that put language around something naturally hard to picture.
Is there a quote here connecting infinity to creed or religion?
Yes, one claims the poetic notion of infinity reaches further than anything sponsored by a single creed, treating the idea as bigger than doctrine.
Does any quote use infinity in a more personal, paradoxical way?
One does, admitting an inability to truly conceive infinity while still refusing to accept the alternative, finity, as satisfying either.
Where can I read more quotes on similar philosophical themes?
The Accept quotes page touches on some of the same tension between limits and acceptance.

It ends on paradox and image, unable to conceive infinity yet unwilling to accept finity, and thousands of sparks flying from one flame before returning again to their source.