Quotes About Limits

What will limit us is not the possible evolution of technology, but the evolution of human purposes.

Failing to maintain appropriate boundaries.

The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.

SNL' pushed my limits. It was great. It taught me about fame, it taught me about the business; it was definitely the best experience, or one of the best, that I've had so far. It was a primer for what was to come and what I want out of life.

Imagination is the practice of creativity upon the mind. It is the suspension of restriction hindering one's perception. Unfolding Imagination is essential in overcoming any perceived limits of Self.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Whether we are running our home or studying or hunting or following any other sport, we should go to the very boundaries of pleasure but take good care not to be involved beyond the point where it begins to be mingled with pain.

Bizim en büyük bildiÄŸimiz ÅŸeyleri, doÄŸan?n o konudaki son s?n?rlar? sayar?z.

Writing unfolds like a game that invariably goes beyond its own rules and transgresses its limits. In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is rather a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

The institution of monarchy developed during the Middle Ages against the backdrop of the previously endemic struggles between feudal power agencies. The monarchy presented itself as a referee, aa power capable of putting an end to war, violence, and pillage and saying no to these struggles and private feuds. It made itself acceptable by allocating itself a juridical and negative function, albeit one whose limits it naturally began at once to overstep.

The corollary of the possibility of conceiving other worlds - this one being, de facto, only a domain - is the impossibility of moving beyond the world we inhabit and the imperious necessity of accepting its frontiers as limits.

I. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. II. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. III. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —ARTHUR C. CLARKE'S THREE LAWS

Todo individuo considera que los límites de su propia visión son los límites del mundo. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Llegarán a superarnos los ordenadores en inteligencia? Ciertamente no hay nada en las leyes de la física que lo impida.

Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

Extremes means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

Indeed, the only truely serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truely serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set limits, describes the boundaries of human exsistence.

extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.

Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a vailed longing for death.

Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism in art and in politics is a veiled longing for death.

A??r? uçlar, ard?nda yaÅŸam?n sona erdiÄŸi s?n?rlar demektir ve sanatta da politikada da, a??r?l??a duyulan tutku, ölüme duyulan örtük bir özlemdir asl?nda.

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naïve of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.