John Milton Quotes

To him it is an ocean, unfathomable, and without a shore.

I love the sea because it is boundless.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

All things are infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small also is infinite. And when they are all together, the parts are not clear and distinct because of their smallness

The vastness of Russia devours us.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a desert, you would see only sand. If my love were a star- late at night, only light. And if my love could grow wings, I'd be soaring in flight.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.

What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

Moreover, the universe as a whole is infinite, for whatever is limited has an outermost edge to limit it, and such an edge is defined by something beyond. Since the universe has no edge, it has no limit; and since it lacks a limit, it is infinite and unbounded. Moreover, the universe is infinite both in the number of its atoms and in the extent of its void.

Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity