Meaning of Limitlessness | Babel Free

Definitions

The property of being limitless: infiniteness, boundlessness.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The limitlessness of the heavens awes us.”

“In other respects time has the same characters as space; the character of self-limiting limitlessness : of bounds set⟳ only to be overleapt; and overleapt only to be set⟳ again.”

“The finite self-variations of the Self in which the mind⟳ losing self-knowledge is caught and dispersed among the variations, are yet not the denials but the endless expression of the Infinite and have⟳ no other meaning or reason⟳ for existence: the Infinite too, while it possesses its delight of limitless being, finds also the joy of that very limitlessness in its infinite self-definition in the universe.”

“in their light⟳ and block⟳ the path of reform⟳. They fail⟳ to see⟳ that as regards them a very large proportion of the needed reform⟳ must be self-reform, self-wrought, and involving self-sacrifice. They have⟳ a perniciously misleading notion of the limits — or rather of the limitlessness — of the functions and capacities of governments, which causes them to overlook or neglect⟳ substantial and obtainable things, while wasting their energies, embittering their spirits, and weakening their position, in pursuit of political will-o'-the-wisps.”

“There is the sublime of Time. When we try⟳ to represent⟳ time — to embody it in successive imaginative forms, however great, vast, or long — we always find⟳ a time beyond, — a transcendent time. Every attempt⟳ to realise⟳ time as a whole is baffled, and each effort but results in realising more and more the limitlessness of Eternity. This is the Sublime of Duration. With this element we naturally connect⟳ the effects of Power — of the great limitless forces which have⟳ been at work⟳ during the past ages ; at work⟳ in making and constituting, in modifying, changing, and destroying. And these conceptions of the march⟳ of irresistible Power, the passing, fading away of individuals before it, its unceasing ongoing, its indifference, and in some respects its mercilessness — fill⟳, rouse, and appal imagination and thought, and thus produce⟳ the mixed emotion of sublimity, — the sublimity of omnipotence joined to limitlessness. In this there is the element of suggestion of what is beyond the senses, in its highest, strongest form⟳.”

“The mind⟳ of man can not so much as grasp this. It is, indeed, as when we try⟳ to think⟳ of the distant universes, the countless suns, the limitlessness of space.”

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