Quotes About Limits

La única posibilidad de descubrir los límites de lo posible es aventurarse un poco más allá de ellos, hacia lo imposible.

Martin's one of the nicest fellows you could meet, as long as you don't do it too often.

In my own version of the idea of 'what art wants,' the end and fulfillment of the history of art is the philosophical understanding of what art is, an understanding that is achieved in the way that understanding in each of our lives is achieved, namely, from the mistakes we make, the false paths we follow, the false images we have come to abandon until we learn wherein our limits consist, and then how to live within those limits.

When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it.

Like all boses—and on set, I'm the boss—I'm the boss only up to a point.

Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less perfect.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself & in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, & human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing & if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying, and human existence is indistinguishable from an absurd vegetation; a life justifies itself only if its effort to perpetuate itself is integrated into its surpassing and if this surpassing has no other limits than those which the subject assigns himself.

Mi ero voluta senza limiti ed ero informe come l'infinito. La cosa paradossale è che mi accorsi di questa deficienza proprio nel momento in cui scoprivo la mia individualità: la mia pretesa al'universale fin allora mi era apparsa ovvi, e invece, ecco che diveniva un tratto di carattere. Simone si interessa di tutto. Mi trovavo delimitata dal mio rifiuto dei limiti.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Compassion limits even the power of God.

I think that when you live in a world with limits... when you've met everyone and seem everything you're going to see - you lose the hope that something extraordinary will happen in your life

...suffering and freedom have their limits...those limits are very near together.

I'm learning how to keep my identity and personal life sacred. It's a matter of knowing my limits. I don't have to give everything that's asked of me.

If we live within the boundaries God has prescribed for us, we realize that our boundaries grow and there's plenty of freedom…

Whoever isn't in a cage is free, You can stroll, fly or go deep down in the sea, Being in limits is never a choice, Curtailment never made moments of joys.

The boundaries that we face in life are mostly those we self-construct.

God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times

We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are.

Hardin, Garrett, Filters Against Folly (New York: Penguin, 1985).

Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.

The aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty.

aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty.

Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognised as the vital question of the future.