Quotes About Scope

We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not. For that would apparently presuppose that we exclude certain possibilities, and this cannot be the case since otherwise logic must get outside the limits of the world: that is, if it could consider these limits from the other side also.

We here touch one instance of Wittgenstein's fundamental thesis, that it is impossible to say anything about the world as a whole, and that whatever can be said has to be about bounded portions of the world.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

The scope and quality of the system you produce should be specified as part of that system's requirements.

It's clear that identity is a finite concept. What's not clear is the location of its boundaries.

Amid the ashes of stratified society, the egalitarian consensus can arise. But for that to happen, Fritz warns, the disaster must be generalized. Crises of more limited scope tend to have the opposite effect.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.

Recent decades have taught us that physics is a magic window. It shows us the illusion that lies behind reality—and the reality that lies behind illusion. Its scope is immensely greater than we one realized. We are no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, or fields of force, or geometry, or even space and time. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.

His radio show was brisk and never lacked color. Initially seen as a gossip show, it gradually broadened its scope until Winchell the grade school dropout was routinely commenting on affairs of state. In the early '30s he got on Hitler's case, terming the Nazis "thugs, racketeers, and hoodlums.

Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.

A wise thief, whether as a state, or figure picks and steals precious and valuable things, to execute civilization in its scope where that exists and enjoys, ignoring the truth.

A person who is humanitarian by soul has a great scope of becoming a true comedian, but let us remember it by heart that some people claiming to be comedians are just politicians by mind.

There is no scope perhaps left for the hope of humanity to sink down further, so if we really think to stop the rot of the society, then the change should start instantly from the top to stop depravity.

The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -- to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.

The vision one holds of one's life is so limited, reduced in scope to a moment, so that each person can make choices only within that narrowed reality.

I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

My range is limited.

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with.

You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.

Both 'The Wire' and 'Queer as Folk' had a big scope. They were panoramas, telling ambitious stories about two cities, Baltimore and Manchester, for the first time.

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

There is an overarching comedy community, and then there are little comedy community pockets, almost like the way L.A. is structured. You have this grand scope of what Los Angeles is, but within that, there are all of these multi-functioning cities and neighborhoods.