finitude

1 Work, as I should’ve remembered from my study of Heidegger, is what sets us all free from Angst, our awareness of the finitude of existence, the blackest hole there is.

2 All education desires to free man from his finitude, to make him ethical, to unite him with God.

3 All finitude, all determination, according to the well-known Spinozistic aphorism, is negation, and negation cannot constitute reality.

4 Everything flows from the double assumption that only finitude makes for ultimate meaning and that most religious values are unconsciously secular.

5 My transition from phase to phase of "finitude" is a thing so absolute that Idealism itself has deemed an Absolute indispensable to assure its safe and sane achievement.

6 In conventional religion, the cultivation of transcendence — God, Dao, Brahman or Nirvana — helped people to appreciate human finitude.

7 All of us must live with a view to our finitude.

8 In so far as man relates himself to God, he cancels all finitude and transitoriness, and by this feeling frees himself from the externality of phenomena.

9 But, as the artist reminds us, life’s finitude is precisely what makes it meaningful — making it a little bit easier to acknowledge, and even accept, the precariousness in all of our lives.

10 But, as we have seen, only the veil of an infinitesimal finitude intervenes between the logic of the objective universal of absolute idealism and the objective logic of analytic realism.

11 If we stick to causality as such, we have it not in its truth. Such a causality is merely finite, and its finitude lies in retaining the distinction between cause and effect unassimilated.

如果固执着因果关系的本身，则我们就得不到这种关系的真理性，而只能看到有限的因果性，而因果关系的有限性就在于坚持因与果的区别。

12 The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities On this day that fetishizes finitude, that reminds us how rapidly our own earthly time share is shrinking, allow me to offer the modest comfort of infinities.

13 In these words, a correct expression is given to the finitude of Will.

这样便已经正确说出意志的有限性了。

14 Such is, indeed, not the case with a finite self, for all finitude is significant of limitation, and in recognizing my limitations I postulate the infinite being or God.

15 As Ernest Becker put it, riches “change one’s natural situation from one of smallness, helplessness, finitude, to one of bigness, control, durability, importance.”

16 It’s one thing to intellectually understand the finitude of our lives and another to actually live it out.

17 In this way the truth becomes liable to the terms and conditions of finitude in general.

18 But again, that sounds to me like someone who’s grateful and has an awareness of the finitude of things; that no one lives forever.

19 Because it pretends to be about physics, but secretly it is my book about the meaning and the finitude of life.

20 Lost in the commotion was what I’d say was Franzen’s most important reminder: that our capacity for concern is finite, and we ignore that finitude at our peril.

1 限度

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2 限定

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3 有限

modesty limited narrow terminate finite confined determinate one-horse number limitary incapacious restricted two-by-four