Limits Quotes

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There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is… — John Stuart Mill
The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and… — Epicurus
It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire. — Hafez
When the self is ones exclusive subject and limit, reference and measure, one has no choice but to make a world of words. — Wendell Berry
There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise. — Immanuel Kant
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken… — Bob Dylan
Limit use of shareware and public domain software to systems without fixed disks. If you do use them on fixed disks, allocate separate subdirectories... Public… — John McAfee
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Rich man and poor move side by side toward the limit of death. — Pindar
I believe that every human being is potentially capable within his 'limits' of fully 'realizing' his potentialities; that this, his being cheated and choked of… — James Agee
A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits. — Paul Theroux
Theology emerged not as a course of knowledge but as a feast of homily and imagination and exaggeration in which every man could find his… — Israel Shenker
I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself. — Malcolm McDowell
Twitter is the limit of me putting myself out there. — Matthew Lewis
I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No… — Samantha Morton
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a… — Rene Descartes
The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited… — Ted Nelson
It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And… — Jamie Oliver

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