Limits Quotes

2452 Limits quotes by 1712 unique authors

The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within,… — Susanne Katherina Langer
A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves… — George Santayana
But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it wants, regardless of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of… — James A. Baldwin
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I never did see… — Herman Wouk
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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