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

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

    “It never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being. They come to serve his actual wants, never to please his fancy.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

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

    “If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)