Quotes About Limits

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

For I am yearning to visit the limits of the all-nurturing Earth, and Oceans, from whom the gods are sprung.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

Yes, rules are made to be broken -- but ONLY if you have a damn good reason for doing it.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Planeta ze swoimi ograniczonymi zasobami jest w stanie zaspokoi? ludzkie potrzeby, ale nie ludzk? chciwo??.

Once I stood in line behind a young woman ordering coffee who remarked to her friend that she didn't yet have a set of beliefs, and I imagined catalogs from which one could order such sets, like furniture, beliefs that wouldn't collapse under one's full weight, big sturdy reliable sideboards of belief. As for me, I have learned what I can do and what I can't. I know my limits. That's all I have to go on, but it's better than nothing.

Historically, Apartheid's failure to secure, once and for all, impenetrable frontiers between a plurality of different fleshes demonstrated a posteriori the limits of the colonial project of separation. Short of its total extermination, the Other is no longer external to us. It is within us, in the double figure of the alter ego, each mortally exposed to the other and to itself.

Hiçbir ÅŸey imkans?z deÄŸildir… Baz? ÅŸeylerin olma olas?l??? daha düÅŸüktür sadece.

What [Adam] Smith took from [David] Hume's demonstration of the limits of reason, the absurdity of superstition, and the primacy of the passions was not a lesson of Buddhist-Stoical indifference but something more like a sense of Epicurean intensity—if we are living in the material world, then let us make it our material.

Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply beyond it. But in civilised society it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species; and it can do so in no other way than by destroying a great part of the children which their fruitful marriages produce.

Every species of animals naturally multiplies in proportion to the means of their subsistence, and no species can ever multiply be yond it. But in civilized society, it is only among the inferior ranks of people that the scantiness of subsistence can set limits to the further multiplication of the human species;

Our judgement of what constitutes an appropriate limit on anything—for example, on wealth or esteem—is never arrived at independently; instead, we make such determinations by comparing our condition with that of a reference group, a set of people who we believe resemble us.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information, but unlearning old limits.

All limits exist only in thought, and that is where they are overcome.

When people tell me population is the number one environmental problem we face today, I always respond that population is by no means primary. It's not even secondary or tertiary. First, there's the question of resource consumption […]. Second is the failure to accept limits, of which overpopulation and overconsumption are merely two linked symptoms.

Where there are no boundaries, there is no violation.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

Keep in mind, we are past the age of enlightenment. This is past reason. We are pretty deep into modern history and the decline of religion. This is when nature itself has been stripped bare of its cozy personality and we all feel homeless in our natures as well. "The Limits Of The World

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.