The true immortality of religion is this--amid finitude to become one with the infinite, and in one moment to be eternal.
Evil and finitude demand explanation, not denial, and this without the abandonment of pantheism.
Thus it is not a question of human finitude or limitation.
But in fact even human finitude is no obstacle to a comprehension of the principles of reality.
It belongs not to his nature as spirit, but to his finitude as man.
By denying the negative, we reach the affirmative; by annihilating finitude in our thought, and so undoing the illusory work of the imagination, we reach the indeterminate or unconditioned being which alone truly is.
For it is architecture that paves the way, as it were, for the adequate realization of the God, toiling and wrestling in his service with external nature, and seeking to extricate it from the chaos of finitude and the abortiveness of chance.
To say that Christianity is a religion of both infinity and finitude means nothing less than that it contains a contradiction.
The finitude and injustice of his personal life would be broken down; the illusion of selfishness would be dissipated; and he might say to himself, I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.
The earlier efforts of thought towards objectivity constitute a passing into determinateness and finitude merely, and not into an objective world adequate to absolute existence.
But it is different when, in so far as I exist as an individual subject, the Idea exists in me as this particular individual; there we have the standpoint offinitude established, and therefore of passivity.
Finitude is thus in the infinite itself, and this is, indeed, a great thought.
Thus it is a difference through which no finitude arises, seeing that it likewise is sublated.
Finitude consists in this, that a distinction as regards something else is an externality to some other object.
The finitude of all conceptions of truth can be shown, for they contain in themselves a negation, and consequently a contradiction.
Such is, indeed, not the case with a finite self, for all finitude is significant of limitation, and in recognizing my limitations I postulate the infinite being or God.
He is in quite the same punishment as Orion or even Sisyphus, the penalty of all finitude is upon him.
There is no doubt that we see here the beginning of the end of polytheism; the many Gods collide with one another, some are now put out and all will be finally put out; they are showing their finitude and transitoriness.
Or we may give the matter a psychological turn and say: Such is the transition from the Understanding with its finitude to Reason with its universality, to the all-seeing light within.
In this way the truth becomes liable to the terms and conditions of finitude in general.
As this consciousness of the Absolute first takes shape, its immediacy produces the factor of finitude in Art.
God really involves, the point specially calling for note is the "moment" of negation through which the essential content of the starting-point is purged of its finitude so as to come forth free.
Its finitude lies in the formalism that the spontaneity of its self-fulfilment means no more than a general and abstract ownness, not yet identified with matured reason.
The saying of Schleiermacher, 'In the midst of finitude to be one with the Infinite, and to be eternal in a moment,' is all that modern thought can say about immortality.
But the emphasis thus laid on the divine worth and dignity of human love is balanced by the stress which the poet places on the frailty and finitude of every other human attribute.
It removes all the limitations of finitude and lifts man into rapturous unity with the God he adores; and it gives such completeness to his life that it seems to him to be a joyous pulse of the life that is absolute.
Man has found out the great paradox that what is limited is not imprisoned within its limits; it is ever moving, and therewith shedding its finitude every moment.
In fact, imperfection is not a negation of perfectness; finitude is not contradictory to infinity: they are but completeness manifested in parts, infinity revealed within bounds.
Separateness is the finitude where it finds its barriers to come back again and again to its infinite source.
Like substance, beauty would be everywhere one and the same, and any tendency to prefer one thing to another would be a proof of finitude and illusion.
It exists by its finitude and is great in proportion to its determination.
Now finitude of the will characterizes the orientals, because with them the will has not yet grasped itself as universal, for thought is not yet free for itself.
The finite, which is for consciousness, may have the form of finitude as finite, or it may become the infinite, which is however an abstraction.
In so far as man relates himself to God, he cancels all finitude and transitoriness, and by this feeling frees himself from the externality of phenomena.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
Consequently, if we accept his theory of the finitude of life, we are braced up to do our part while we can.
This was the maddest possible way of rebelling against his true creator; for it is our particular finitude that creates us and makes us be.
Though to acquire or impart form is delightful in art, in thought, in generation, in government, yet a euthanasia of finitude is also known.
Finitude is the indispensable condition of unselfishness as well as of selfishness, and of speculative vision no less than of hypothetical knowledge.
The supposed "metaphysical evil" involved in finitude would then be no evil at all, but the condition of every good.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finitude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: death; finitude; impermanence; instability; mortality; mutability; volatility
