Boundary Quotes
177 quotes by 151 authors
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
— Edmund Burke
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
— Eduardo Chillida
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Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he…
— O. Henry
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Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.
— Rumi
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater…
— Humphry Davy
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Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the theoretical and the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more…
— Joseph Priestley
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I remember vividly my student days, spending hours at the light microscope, turning endlessly the micrometric screw, and gazing at the blurred boundary which concealed…
— Albert Claude
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What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Buddhas can take you to the boundary line of meditation and samadhi. That is the only difference between meditation and samadhi. If your mind has…
— Rajneesh
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Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.
— Kazimir Malevich
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All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?
— Robert L. Park
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the nature of the…
— Peter Singer
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social…
— Peter Singer
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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding…
— Mark Twain
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