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

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

    “Mathematics ... would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

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

    “There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.”
    —William Hazlitt (1778–1830)