According to Heidegger, finitude is the essence of being human.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fourfold Visions of William Blake and Martin Heidegger] Reference

In the end, Faust heroically accepts finitude too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

She is exploring the shape and finitude of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Krista Tippett: Reconciling Science and Religion: How Did These Great Minds Do It?] Reference

They are simply facts about the finitude of living organisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behe Responds] Reference

Instead, it denotes the I's original encounter with its own finitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johann Gottlieb Fichte] Reference

For Derrida, fidelity, finitude, and mourning lie at the heart of friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida] Reference

The site of analysis is no longer representation but man in his finitude ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoke and Mirrors: Internalizing the Magic Lantern show in _Vilette_] Reference

The finitude of linguistic expression is such that no utterance can be complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gadamer's Aesthetics] Reference

The first antinomy concerns the finitude or infinitude of the spatio-temporal world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference

I turn 40 next month -- middle aged at last -- a time of discovering limits, finitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saw CIA Movie; Conservative Praises Hippies; 1876 Harper's Cartoons; Unfilmable; Jigsaw Puzzles] Reference

Aging and old people are not the enemy; our own unwillingness to face human finitude is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynn Casteel Harper: Aging with Courage: The Beginning of a Living Faith] Reference

It is the ever-present opening, so to speak, where one's utter finitude can come to light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nishida Kitarô] Reference

So simplicity does not entail infinity, because finitude is not the result of composition.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Duns Scotus] Reference

Coming to terms with finitude is the ongoing struggle of the human spirit; it is soul work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynn Casteel Harper: Aging with Courage: The Beginning of a Living Faith] Reference

In All Men Are Mortal the givenness of finitude and death concerns our relationship to time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simone de Beauvoir] Reference

As such, it is aware both of the gravity of the phenomenon and of its finitude and relativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haim Watzman: Laugh Your Guts Out -- Irony on Yom Kippur and Election Day] Reference

His vision depends on the equation of finitude with imperfection and of infinity with perfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [HIERARCHY AND ORDER] Reference

Before we express faith and hope and love, we are conscious of finitude, contingency and transience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remarks At Fifth Millennium Evening At The White House] Reference

Another fact that would set a limit on L is the finitude of the bankroll necessary to fund the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The St. Petersburg Paradox] Reference

My head -- so limited in its finitude; my heart, which is boundless in its love for the human family.    From Wordnik.com.  [1984 Democratic National Convention Address ("The Rainbow Coalition")] Reference

It is a proclamation of the limits of reason and human finitude as well as a state - ment of social idealism.    From Wordnik.com.  [UTOPIA] Reference

The fact that time and change exist at all is a hint as to the finitude of universal mass and spatial extent.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dark, Misleading Force] Reference

The priority of the eternal celestial revolutions, furthermore, guarantees the causal finitude of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle's Natural Philosophy] Reference

Our finitude is, therefore, simultaneously founded and founding (positive and fundamental, as Foucault puts it).    From Wordnik.com.  [Michel Foucault] Reference

Page 459, Volume 4 found in their impossibility a despairing statement of human finitude and man's radical imperfection.    From Wordnik.com.  [UTOPIA] Reference

In the face of a penetrating awareness of finitude, her emphatic yes to life is nothing short of courageous, even heroic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lynn Casteel Harper: Aging with Courage: The Beginning of a Living Faith] Reference

Given the finitude of the human mind, it is limited with respect to its reach, and it is diverse in its modes of thinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Astell] Reference

The infinite manifests itself in the realm of individual beings bound within the constraints of time, space, and finitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Josiah Royce] Reference

Tehranian is indeed correct when he asserts, “Both are concerned with human conditions of frailty, fragility, and finitude.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Relation between Buddhism and Sufism: Response to Majid Tehranian] Reference

Someone once said that human beings are an evolved species because we, among all animals, know the finitude of our moral existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate, Poverty and Health~ Lecture] Reference

Staying in the technical vein, several authors have noted a tension in the way Putnam's argument deals with the notion of finitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skolem's Paradox] Reference

He rejected the finitude of the physical universe and the concept that heavenly bodies moved in conjunction with fixed celestial spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francesco Patrizi] Reference

According to Ambrose, the thorns of the rose were a reminder of human finitude and guilt as the roses in the Paradise Garden had no thorns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thematic Essay: The Rose] Reference

This question is raised early in her 1946 novel, All Men Are Mortal, the story of Fosca, a man who escapes the human condition of finitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simone de Beauvoir] Reference