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Limits Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine, and…
- The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
- It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
- The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
- To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
- To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every…
- When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in…
- Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within…
- The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
- Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his…
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