infinite

• Like the alien, the infinite is a subject best crept up on. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 05 - May 2001
• The curved metal hatch felt as cold as the infinite, airless space that he knew lay just on its other side, like some vampiric monster that hungered to drain every last bit of warmth and life from the bodies of everyone present. —  LastFullMeasure
• Forming a collective existence without assignable beginning or end, it appeals to that feeling of the infinite which is deeply rooted in human nature, and which seems necessary to the imposingness of all our highest conceptions However, we must now endeavour to briefly trace the steps whereby Comte arrived at what certainly must be acknowledged a most startling conclusion A study of universal history, of which he must be acknowledged an absolute master, had convinced him that all human institutions, be they beliefs, forms of society or government, scientific conceptions, or modes of thought in general, have passed through three distinct stages. —  Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles
• Among the Greeks the term infinite was a term of disparagement; they thought roundly and cleanly, thus preferring ideas to vague surmises. —  The Moral Economy
• Gaze into Vernet's pictures: always sunrises or sunsets, calms or tempests, nights of moonlight, misty horizons in which it is quite impossible to distinguish the limiting lines--the infinite is always suggested in them: hence their hold upon the popular imagination It is really wonderful in how many ways this feeling appeals to us; it seems to be the background of our whole finite being. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

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