“An infinite remoteness underlies us all.”

I 1 as translated in Giordano Bruno : His Life and Thought with annotated translation of his work On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (1950) by Dorothea Waley Singer http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/bruno03.htm <br class="br">De immenso (1591)

p, 125
Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (1902)

The Shorter Leibniz Texts (2006) http://books.google.com/books?id=oFoCY3xJ8nkC&amp;dq edited by Lloyd H. Strickland, p. 111

Source: The Courage to Be (1952), p. 125

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 421.

Kanan Makiya, "Kanan Makiya speaks about Iraq 5 years later...", Washington Post (March 20, 2008)

As quoted by Sir William Osler in his introduction to The Life of Pasteur (1907) by Rene Vallery-Radot, as translated by R .L. Devonshire (1923)
Discours de réception de Louis Pasteur (1882)
Context: He who proclaims the existence of the Infinite, and none can avoid it — accumulates in that affirmation more of the supernatural than is to be found in all the miracles of all the religions; for the notion of the Infinite presents that double character that forces itself upon us and yet is incomprehensible. When this notion seizes upon our understanding we can but kneel... I see everywhere the inevitable expression of the Infinite in the world; through it the supernatural is at the bottom of every heart. The idea of God is a form of the idea of the Infinite. As long as the mystery of the infinite weighs on human thought, temples will be erected for the worship of the Infinite, whether God is called Brahma, Allah, Jehovah, or Jesus; and on the pavement of these temples, men will be seen kneeling, prostrated, annihilated by the thought of the Infinite.

1964, p. 141; Chapter 1; Chapter 1: The Origin of Speech
Speech, 1930

Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)