#infini

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

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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. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none. ↗

— David Brainerd

#greatness #honours #infinitely #none #pleasures

God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#affection #almighty #any #appetite #god

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution. ↗

— Andrew Carnegie

#difficult #difficult task #distribution #i #infinitely

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

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. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#beings #come #creator #even #fire

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

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