#infini

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#fallen #god #heaven #his #infinite

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#cannot #countless #distant #entire #faint

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. ↗

— Clifford D. Simak

#brackets #each #either #enclosing #except

On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#consciousness #easy #hand #hardly #infinitely

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#duty #else #everything #god #hands

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. ↗

— Hippolyte Taine

#cats #i #infinitely #many #philosophers

The power of imagination makes us infinite. ↗

— John Muir

#imagination #infinite #makes #power #us

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#consumption #finite #growth #impossibility #infinite

You've felt it, haven't you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches? ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#infinite #beauty

Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves - our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love. ↗

— William E. Simon

#commitment #energy #important #infinitely #love