Quotes About Boundlessness

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by servitude and yet always willing to accept the slipping on of the harness. There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and her empire is an intangible one, for her domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò-Lived in trees-Always loved earth--Went into sky.

An age will come after many years when the Ocean will loose the chains of things, and a huge land lie revealed; when Tiphys will disclose new worlds and Thule no more be the ultimate.

I just don't feel limited by genre.

World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

His mind had no horizon—and his sympathy had no warp.

She would never think of shutting a door and, on the other hand, would no more hesitate to enter a room if the door stood open than would a dog or a cat.

This is an introduction for those who desire an intuitive grasp of Derridean "thought" that makes a difference, that gains traction in one's life. Writing is the central concept for Derrida. This writing, however, must be understood as inscription, the line that at once limits and defines, as boundedness. Writing is also a heuristic device in the service of what I will call constitutive difference.

The book doesn't limit God.