Incalculable Quotes
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"We must look into unknown dimensions, into Nature, into that incalculable and imponderable life, whose carrier and mediator, the blood of the Earth that accompanies us steadfastly from the cradle to the grave, is water."
viktor schauberger— Implosion Magazine, No. 103, p. 28 (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
The introduction of the Christian religion into the world has produced an incalculable change in history. There had previously been only a history of nations — there is now a history of mankind; and the idea of an education of human nature as a whole, — an education the work of Jesus Christ Himself — is become like a compass for the historian, the key of history, and the hope of nations.
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 141.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and insensibly approximate to the characters we most admire. In this way, a generous habit of thought and of action carries with it an incalculable influence.
christian nestell bovee— Volume I, p. 178; reported in Otis Henry Tiffany, Gems for the Fireside (1883), p. 809.
The incalculable Up-and-Down of Time.
Sidney Lanier— "Clover", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.
ivan pavlov— Scientific Study of So-Called Psychical Processes in the Higher Animals
Religion has never befriended the cause of humaneness. Its monstrous doctrine of eternal punishment and the torture of the damned underlies much of the barbarity with which man has treated man; and the deep division imagined by the Church between the human being, with his immortal soul, and the soulless "beasts", has been responsible for an incalculable sum of cruelty.
henry stephens salt— Seventy Years Among Savages (1921).
The one thing to do is to do nothing. Wait. ... You will find that you survive humiliation and that's an experience of incalculable value.
— Unidentified Guest, Act 1, Scene 1
My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age.
william osler— Vol. I, Ch. 24 : "The Fixed Period"
The belief that the conditioned derives from the unconditioned, wrong from right, represent the most fatal error and the one most fraught with consequences that is ("et la plus lourde de conséquences qui soit", Fr.) This believe gave rise (or engender) incalculable harms; it has obliterated (or obstructed or cancelled) the religious consciousness and warped the moral judgement; morevoer, it has created an abyss between science and religion, and brought generations of men to atheism.
african spir— p. 40 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
All of our boasted wealth, wonderful inventions and incalculable mechanical power will prove to be an unstable foundation if we continue to dwell together in strife individual against individual, class against class, nation against nation.
— "The Commercial Motive" ibid.
Other people snap up the riskless profits pretty fast and bid the price of calculable risk opportunities to near their fair values. Things get a lot less crowded if you go for the incalculable risks, leaps of faith that cannot be inspected carefully before takeoff. So that is where you find extraordinary opportunities.
aaron c. brown— The Poker Face of Wall Street, Chapter 1: "The Art of Uncalculated Risk" (2006, pg. 2).
And again, Subhuti, suppose a woman or a man were to renounce all their belongings as many times as there are grains of sand in the river Ganges; and suppose that someone else, after taking from this discourse on dharma but one stanza of four lines would demonstrate it to others. Then this latter on the strength of that would beget a greater heap of merit , immeasurable and incalculable.
— Buddha, in Wisdom Beyond Words: The Buddhist Vision of Ultimate Reality (2000), p.51
