Quotes About Limit

Athens and the Greek peninsula marked the western limit of the three great Hellenistic kingdoms

For if some sense is lacking, our reasoning cannot discover the defect. It is the privilege of the senses to be the extreme limit of our awareness; there is nothing beyond them that can help us discover them, no more than one sense can discover another

For a climber, saying that you are stopping by Everest is like saying that you are stopping by to see God.

La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase. C'est fait pour ça.

Trop, c'est personne.

He always remembered it vividly when he was in physical pain and when the limit of his strength seemed to have been reached, and it was a memory that helped him every time to hold out and to go on.

La vérité, c'est qu'il y a une quantité incroyable de gouttes qui ne font pas déborder le vase.

The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit - not a part of the world.

We never arrive at fundamental propositions in the course of our investigation; we get to the boundary of language which stops us from asking further questions. We don't get to the bottom of things, but reach a point where we can go no further, where we cannot ask further questions.

Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.

Contradiction is the external limit of the propositions, tautology their substanceless centre.

The limit of language is shown by its being impossible to describe the fact which corresponds to (is the translation of) a sentence, without simply repeating the sentence.

Una frontera indefinida no es frontera en absoluto.

the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point

If you plug in the neocortex ratio for Homo sapiens, you get a group estimate of 147.8-or roughly 150. The figure 150 seems to represent the maximum number of individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who they are and how they relate to us.

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

Bir basketbol oyuncusu sadece yeterince uzun olmal? ve ayn? durum zeka için de geçerli. Zekan?n bir eÅŸiÄŸi var.

There is a natural limit to the success we wish our friends, even when we have spurred them on their way.

I will Construct thyself in a box & challenge thyself to jump out of it......

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

All my life I still have found, and I will forget it never; Every sorrow hath its bound, and no cross endures forever.

A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

How do we quantify the help needed to rebuild these ruined lives? The question is answered easily enough if we pose it not in the abstract but in relation to ourselves. To put ourselves in the place of these victims is to know that all the help in the world would not be enough. Sufficiency is not a concept that is applicable here; potentially there is no limit to the amount of relief that can be used.