The mind alone perhaps occupies in infinity a space which comparisons do not reduce to nothing.
When our mind no longer has a body, what shall it carry with it into infinity whereby to recognize itself, seeing that it knows itself only by grace of that body?
In a word, we are in an infinity that seems to have almost the same character, the same habits as that power in the midst of which we breathe and which, upon our earth, we call nature or life.
It will have no other career than infinity; and infinityis nothing if it be not felicity.
But it is childish to talk of happiness and unhappiness where infinity is in question.
Some one, after all, must know what they ask; and, as behind infinity there can be none that is not infinity itself, it is impossible to imagine a malignant will in a will that leaves no point around it but what it fills entirely.
It could not have an aim, for, if it had one, it would have attained it in the infinity of years that preceded us.
He records that at this time he learned an infinity of snatches of songs, small romances, &c.
At this time there is on my papers an infinity of optical investigations: also a plan of an eye-piece with a concave lens to destroy certain aberrations.
Then there was an infinity of standing about, and very much I was fatigued, till I got some luncheon at Blakesley's rooms at 1 o'clock.
One extremity of the tænia, is said by Linneus to grow old, whilst at the other end new ones are generated proceeding to infinity like the roots of grass.
And lastly, that there is more dignity in our idea of the supreme author of all things, when we conceive him to be the cause of causes, than the cause simply of the events, which we see; if there can be any difference in infinity of power!
Still more, incomparably greater is the width of range of painting than that of speech, because the painter can accomplish an infinity of things which speech will not be able to name for want of the appropriate terms.
The power of the projecting force increases in proportion as the object projected is smaller; the acceleration of the motion increases to infinity proportionately to this diminution.
Of course," said the Professor, "the Log of Infinityis an Unknown.
Ourselves we felt as if the Log of Infinity carried us to ground higher than what we commonly care to tread on.
This, I suppose, they will scarce say; since then there would be as many eternal thinking beings as there are particles of matter, and so an infinity of gods.
When a man takes issue with the world the chances are as one to infinity that he is wrong.
When a wife "goes astray" the chances are as one to infinity that the misstep is her husband's fault.
It is of no use endeavouring to makeinfinity a trifle less infinite.
From this infinity of God it also follows that the distinction between what we call great occasions and small ones--between occasions that we think would justify Divine interposition and those which would not--may not exist in God's eyes.
From either end she imagined, as a child, that she looked over into outer space--from the eastern end into the infinity before birth, from the western into the infinity that follows death.
In the grim silence of the desert, in the vastness of the heavens, in the great infinity of space, in the scintillation of the stars, in every fibre of his own consciousness, God was with him.
Communion with Him, through his own thought and through the great Infinity around him, was what his heart most desired.
This infinity cannot appear in derivative substances because these descend from that sun by degrees of two kinds in accord with which perfections decline.
Who disposes these varieties which proceed to infinity and eternity so that they have order unless it is He who created what is constant to the end that they may exist in it?
The infinite and eternal to which the Lord looks in forming His heaven from mankind is the growth of it to infinity and eternity and thus His dwelling constantly in the purpose of His creation.
An infinity of love and wisdom proceeds from Him, flows in with all in heaven, thence with all in hell, and from heaven and hell with all in the world.
This capacity of fructification and multiplication without end or to infinity and eternity exists in natural things with men, in spiritual with the spiritual angels, and in celestial with the celestial angels.
The endeavor to lay down rules for guidance as to this led to an infinity of instructions, more or less rigid or lax.
In the Andalusian tunny fishery" he said "there may be seen an infinity of tunnies, the smallest of them as big as you, and yet not one of them will show the least particle of salt, although they have lived in the midst of salt.
Infinity measureless 519:9 Thus the ideas of God in universal being are complete and forever expressed, for Science reveals infinity and the fatherhood and motherhood of Love.
The recognition of Spirit and of infinity comes not 77:1 suddenly here or hereafter.
It is the feeling that Blake has crystallised in the lines: 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.
Could any words more completely express the infinity of love's desire, ever unsatisfied even in possession, than does this love-cry from the heart of Julian the anchoress of Norwich?
At last, after what appeared an infinity of time, she heard the hum of talk and laughter drift out of the room .
It seemed to her that an infinity of time dragged by before he spoke again.
So, then, it is not the idea ofinfinity to which the human mind is unfitted.
The Bible is like nature in its immense, its exhaustless variety; like nature, it reflects all the higher moods of the human soul, because it does much more; because it brings us face to face with the infinity of the divine life.
So far is the idea of infinity from being inconceivable, that it is just impossible to thrust the conception out of the mind.
The awful wonder of God's unchangeable infinity abides; but out of cloud and darkness breaks forth, oh, what light of fatherly love!
Thus by the incessant dissolution of limits we arrive at a more or less adequate idea of the infinity of space.
The infinity of forms under which matter appears was not imposed upon it by an external artificer; by its own intrinsic force and virtue it brings these forms forth.
Now I have not even the stars to keep me company, for they are all lost in an infinity of snow and twilight here below.
Her eyes are half-closed and deep, her lips are parted as though I could crush them with an infinity of wonder and discovery.
I cannot write here all the infinity of emotions I experienced later, when, with Alice in my arms, it suddenly came upon me what I had done.
This very infinity at last produces a uniformity on account of their smallness, as the eye cannot catch all their variations.
Its growth, unlike maple, is an indescribable interlacing and twining of its ligaments which when sawed produce an infinity of variations with short, jerky, snappish terminations, and an infinity of short mottlings.
As all other marbles, it has an infinity of showings.
The good marbler is entitled to be called an artist, for it is only an artist who can vary this infinity of forms properly.
