Infinity
That which has no limit or end, in number, space, time or power.
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For the infinite is in the category of quantity, whereas substance or quality or affection cannot be infinite except through rested on the rather obvious geometrical fallacy of supposing that if a particular kind of lunule can be squared, another kind can be squared also.
— Aristotle, Posterior Analytics and Physics
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The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me
— Blaise Pascal, Pensees
God had been thrust into the frigid altitudes of infinite space
— R. H. Tawney, The Acquisitive Society
The advance of knowledge is an infinite progression towards a goal that for ever recedes.
— James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (abridged edition)
O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end
— Aristotle, Generation of Animals
we could free ourselves from an infinity of maladies of body as well as of mind, and perhaps also even from the debility of age
— Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
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