Actual Infinity/aristotles Potential%e2%80%93actual Distinction

Famous quotes containing the words actual, infinity and/or distinction:

    I believe that the members of my family must be as free from suspicion as from actual crime.
    Julius Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar] (100–44 B.C.)

    The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
    Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

    Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
    Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)