Quotes About Limits

I too have often felt the need to understand it all; but I know my limits. In my life I've done more suffering than thinking — though I believe one understands better that way.

They weren't penitent over what they'd attempted; their sorrow reached to the limits of their bodies and no further, all their anguish was in their skin.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

We try to press against the boundaries of what we are allowed, walk a step past the edge. Our records will be scrutinized by Congress one day and decisions on whether to enlarge our jurisdiction will be made.

Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.

The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

Philosophy] must set limits to what can be thought; and, in doing so, to what cannot be thought. It must set limits to what cannot be thought by working outwards through what can be thought.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

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.

Philosophy limits the disputable sphere of natural science.

Los límites de mi lenguaje son los límites de mi mente. Sólo conozco aquello para lo que tengo palabras.

The limits of my language means the limit of my world

Los limites de mi lenguaje son los limites de mi mundo

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe

The world is my world: this is shown by the fact that the limits of language stand for the limits of my world…I am my world.

To be sure, I can imagine what Heidegger means by being [Sein] and anxiety [Angst]. Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all exists. This astonishment cannot be expressed in the form of a question, and there is no answer whatsoever. Anything we might say is a priori bound to be mere nonsense. Nevertheless we do run up against the limits of language.

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know

Gränserna för mitt språk innebär gränserna för min värld.

The limits of my language are the limits of my world.

Toda mi tendencia, y creo que la tendencia de todos los humanos que han tratado alguna vez de hablar o escribir sobre ética y religión, llevaba a estrellarnos contra los límites del lenguaje. Esta carrera contra los muros de nuestra jaula es algo perfecta y absolutamente sin esperanza.

The limits of your world are the limits of your language

Você só sabe exatamente até onde pode ir quando já foi.