Infinite Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Infinite


The thirst for the infinite proves infinity. Victor Hugo.	1
Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity. Jeremiah Seed.	2
God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur. Alexander Smith.	3
The finite is annihilated in the presence of infinity, and becomes a simple nothing. Pascal.	4
It is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. Emerson.	5
Infinity is the retirement to which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist—I stand fast. Miller.	6
That which we foolishly call vastness is, rightly considered, not more wonderful, not more impressive, than that which we insolently call littleness; and the infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable, not concealed, but incomprehensible: it is a clear infinity, the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea. Ruskin.	7