#infini

The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#anger #delusion #evils #greed #ignorant

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#almost #am #build #capable #future

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. ↗

— Leonhard Euler

#answer #ask #believed #concept #hence

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. ↗

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#aught #bliss #burial #closely #else

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables. ↗

— Gil Kane

#assembly line #could #down #drawing #exactly

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

— Jean Cocteau

#gods #infinity #known #mysteries #mystery

I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it. ↗

— Peter Greenaway

#any #art #art work #back #could

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. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#deal #examine #fate #finite number #great

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#existence #infinite #means #point #random

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite. ↗

— George Leonard

#capacity #creative #infinite #may #practical