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“Because of its concrete content, sense-certainty immediately appears as the richest kind of knowledge, indeed a knowledge of infinite wealth for which no bounds can be found, either when we reach out into space and time in which it is dispersed, or when we take a bit of this wealth, and by division enter into it. Moreover, sense-certainty appears to be the truest knowledge ... but, in the event, this very certainty proves itself to be the most abstract and poorest truth. All that it says about what it knows is just that it is; and its truth contains nothing but the sheer being of the thing.”

Knows Kind Found Bits Wealth Space Events Prove Infinite Bounds Certainty Abstract Division Reach Out Concrete Sheer Time And Space Poorest Truest Prove It

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.”

Ifs Enough Feelings Happens Events Strange Infinite Boundaries Norm Abnormal Anything Can Happen No Boundaries

Book:Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987

Source: Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987

“"Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.”

Reason Facts Happens Motivation Universe Understanding Chance Our Lives Events Infinite Blind Captains Anything Can Happen Happenstance Infinite Universe

Author:Barry N. Malzberg

“Rama Nama should come from the heart. In that event, Rama Nama could become an effective remedy against all ailments. A man who believes in Rama Nama would not make a fetish of the body but would regard it as a means of serving God. And for making it into a fit instrument for that purpose, Rama Nama is the sovereign means. To install Rama Nama in the heart requires infinite patience. It might even take ages. But the effort is worthwhile. Rama Nama cannot come from the heart unless one has cultivated the virtues of truth, honesty and purity within and without.”

“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.”

Eye Dying Events Duty Creatures Infinite Lays Burden Shoulders Miserable His Eyes Consideration Remove Tempted

Book:The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

“I don't know if God exists and I don't care. God's will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer death of the father of one of my daughter's 2nd-grade classmates last week are, to me, reminders to focus on our obligations to one another, not to the infinite; to honor the creator, if any, by honoring creation itself and hoping that's good enough.”

“In psychology, there's something called the broken-leg problem. A statistical formula may be highly successful in predicting whether or not a person will go to a movie in the next week. But someone who knows that this person is laid up with a broken leg will beat the formula. No formula can take into account the infinite range of such exceptional events.”

Knows May Persons Problem Next Successful Psychology Week Events Broken Beats Accounts Infinite Legs Range Formulas Exceptional Next Week Predicting Broken Leg

Author:Atul Gawande

“Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter.”

Happens Events Infinite Edges Paranormal Encounters

Author:C. Douglas Dillon