It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.
The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.
Time is infinite, but we are not infinite in it.
Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.