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Language makes infinite use proverb

 Language makes infinite use of finite media.

 The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this ... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite q
  Galileo Galilei

 What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could also call the supra-finite), that is an unbounded ascending lader of definite modes, which by their nature are not finite but infinite, but which just like the finite can be determined by well-defined and distinguishable numbers.

 Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are ''prefabricated'' in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
  David Lodge

 Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are ''prefabricated'' in the sense that we don't coin new ones every time we speak.
  David Lodge

 Even the standard example of ancient nonsense - the debate about angels on pinheads - makes sense once you realize that theologians were not discussing whether five or eighteen would fit, but whether a pin could house a finite or an infinite number

 The infinite is in the finite of every instant

 The infinite is in the finite of every instant

 In the dualism of death and life there is a harmony. We know that the life of a soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. It is death which is m
  Rabindranath Tagore

 Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
  Emily Dickinson

 Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Tron är en handling av ett ändligt väsen som grips och vänder sig till det oändliga. (Tro är en handling av en ändlig tillvaro, som greppas av, och förvandlas till, det oändliga.)
  Paul Tillich

 Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite
  Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
  Karl Popper

 We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

 Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.
  Henri Frédéric Amiel


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