infinite quotes

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

-William Blake
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 'A Memorable Fancy', plate14.  Aldous Huxley used this phrase as the title of his work The Doors of Perception (1954).

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
^4  Sartor Resartus, bk.2, ch.9.

There is a misunderstanding by marketers in our culture about what freedom of choice is. In the market, it is equated with multiplying choice. This is a misconception. If you have infinite choice, people are reduced to passivity.

-Todd Gitlin
  In the NewYork Times,14 Feb.

I put the muzzle of the revolver into my right ear and pulled the trigger† I was out by one. I remember an extraordinary sense of jubilation, as if carnival lights had been switched on in a drab street. My heart knocked in its cage, and life contained an infinite number of possibilities.

- (Henry) Graham Greene
Recalling a game of Russian roulette with his brother's revolver in1923.  A Sort of Life, ch.6, pt.2.

   Thegreat and solemnspiritthat pervadestheintellectual

- David Hume
Scottish  philosopher  and  historian.  His  most  important  work, the   empiricist   A  Treatise   of   Human   Nature,   was   published anonymously (1739^40). He published a five-volume History  of England (1754^62) andwas secretary to theBritish Ambassador in Paris (1763^5).

Dieu est le point tangent de ze  ro et de l'infini. God is the tangential point of zero and the infinite.

- Alfred Jarry
  Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll Pataphysicien, vol.8, pt.41.

The thistle yet'll unite Man and the Infinite!

-Grieve
  A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, l.481^2.

He canna Scotland see wha yet Canna see the Infinite, And Scotland in true scale to it.

-Grieve
  A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, l.2527^9.

As lines so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite can never meet. Therefore the love which doth us bind, But fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.

- Andrew Marvell
c.1650^1652  'The Definition of Love' (published1681).

By the time you say you're his, Shivering and sighing And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.

- Dorothy ne  e Rothschild Parker
  Not So Deep as AWell,'Unfortunate Coincidence'.

Qu'est-ce que l'homme dans la nature? Un ne  ant a' l'e  gard de l'infini, un tout a'   l'e  gard du ne  ant, un milieu entre rien et tout. What is man in nature? Nothing in comparison to the infinite, all in comparison to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, pt.2, no.72.

Thankstohis bodily formand thankstohismind, [man] is a universal machine, capable of an infinite diversity of movement.

- Ferdinand Redtenbacher
  Resultate fur den Maschinenbau (published1848).

Per Deum intelligo ens absolute infinitum, hoc est, substantiam constantem infinitis attributis, quorum unumquodque aeternam et infinitam essentiam exprimit. By God I mean a being absolutely infinitethat is, a substance consisting in infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.

- Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza Spinoza
  Ethics.

Le sentiment de l'infini est le ve  ritable attribut de l'a"  me. To feel the infinite is the true attribute of the soul.

- Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stae«  l
  De l'Allemagne.