Infinity Quotes

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

For though, in nature, depth and heightAre equally held infinite:In poetry, the height we know;'Tis only infinite below.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Le silence e ternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.

Extremes are for us as though they were not, and we are not within their notice. They escape us, or we them. This is our true state; this is what makes us incapable of certain knowledge and of absolute ignorance... This is our natural condition, and yet most contrary to our inclination; we burn with desire to find solid ground and an ultimate sure foundation whereon to build a tower reaching to the Infinite. But our whole groundwork cracks, and the earth opens to abysses.

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.