Quotes about Infinite
Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.
- Origen
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is not prayer also a study of truth, — a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Infinite Goodness has such wide arms that it takes whatever turns to it.
- Dante Alighieri
Infinite players regard their wins and losses in whatever finite games they play as but moments in continuing play.
- James Carse
Infinite players regard their wins and losses in whatever finite games they play as but moments in continuing play.
- James Carse
Infinite players cannot say when their game began, nor do they care.
- James Carse
By contrast, infinite players have no interest in seduction or in restricting the freedom of another to one's own boundaries of play. Infinite players recognize choice in all aspects of sexuality. They may see in themselves and in others, for example, the infant's desire to compete for the mother, but they also see that there is neither physiological nor societal destiny in sexual patterns. Who chooses to compete with another can also choose to play with another.
- James Carse
The infinite player in us does not consume time but generates it. Because infinite play is dramatic and has no scripted conclusion, its time is time lived and not time viewed.
- James Carse
Since culture is horizonal it is not restricted by time or space.
- James Carse