Blake William 1757-1827
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Just So Stories ‘How the Whale...'
He had his Mummy's leave to paddle, or else he would never have done it, because he was a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.
Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716
Letter to Magnus Wedderkopf
God wills the things which he understands to be the best and most harmonious and selects them as it were, from an infinite
number of all possibilities.
Marvell Andrew 1621-1678
‘The Definition of Love'
As lines (so loves) ablique may well
Themselves in every angle greet:
But ours so truly parallel,
Though infinite, can never meet.
Therefore the love which us doth bind,
But Fate so enviously debars,
Is the conjunction of the mind,
And opposition of the stars.
Morgenstern Christian
Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
Musset Alfred de 1810-1957
‘L'Espoir en Dieu'
I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.
Pascal Blaise 1623-1662
Pensées
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces [the heavens] terrifies me.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Antony and Cleopatra
Age cannot wither her,nor custom stale
Her infinite variety;other women cloy
The appetites they feed,but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfied.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
Romeo and Juliet
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
Spinoza Baruch 1632-1677
Ethics
By God I mean a being absolutely infinite - that is, a substance consisting in
infinite attributes, of which each expresses eternal and infinite essentiality.
Blake William 1757-1827
‘Auguries of Innocence'
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
Wordsworth William 1770-1850
‘The Borderers'
Action is transitory - a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle - this way or that -
‘Tis done, and in the after vacancy
We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed:
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And shares the nature of infinity.