Famous quotes containing the words finite, point and/or set:
“Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are prefabricated in the sense that we dont coin new ones every time we speak.”
—David Lodge (b. 1935)
“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has streched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“He is a friend of all just men and a lover of the right; and he knows more than how to talk about the righthe knows how to set it forward in the face of its enemies.”
—Woodrow Wilson (18561924)