"Finitude" Quotes from Famous Books
... more reality than the finite, I may conclude that the idea of the infinite has not been derived from the idea of the finite by abstraction and negation; it precedes the latter, and I become conscious of my defects and my finitude only by comparison with the absolute perfection of God. This idea, then, must have been implanted in me by God himself. The idea of God is an original endowment; it is as innate as the idea of myself. However incomplete it may be, ... — History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg
... Spirit are the same person, impiously understanding the three names to refer to one and the same person, we expel with good reason from the Church, because by the incarnation they subject the Father, who is infinite and incapable of suffering, to finitude and suffering in the incarnation. Such are those called Patripassianists by the Romans and Sabellians ... — A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D. |