Quotes About Frontiers

Why are we concerned with art? To cross our frontiers, exceed our limitations, fill our emptiness - fulfil ourselves. This is not a condition but a process in which what is dark in us slowly becomes transparent.

Human thinking is born out of this neurological defect in the human species. Anything that is born out of human thinking is destructive. Thought is destructive. Thought is a protective mechanism. It draws frontiers around itself, and it wants to protect itself. It is for the same reason that we also draw lines on this planet and extend them as far as we can.

free life" as described by a mountaineer: "The mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as breath.

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.

Internet, she said sagely. Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

Harsh necessity, and the newness of my kingdom, force me to do such things and to guard my frontiers everywhere.

the factory-owners and traders, grew stronger as a result of the new trade frontiers in America, Africa and the Far East.

My grandfather used to say the world is full of hidden truths, if only you open your eyes and look. New frontiers are waiting to be explored, no matter what the schoolteachers say or how many books have been written. Maps are just a lie we tell ourselves to feel safe.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.

which stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and was studded with forts along its seventy-three-mile length

north of the River Rhine and the River Danube, and west of the River Vistula.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded; and Heav'n Gates Pourd out by millions her victorious Bands Pursuing. I upon my Frontieres here Keep

Our army was still out of reach on the remote frontiers, and could not be withdrawn, during midwinter, in time for this military operation. Indeed, the General had never suggested such a withdrawal. He knew that had this been possible, the inhabitants on our distant frontiers would have been immediately exposed to the tomahawk and scalping knife of the Indians.

We have not successfully rolled back the frontiers of the state in Britain, only to see them reimposed at a European level with a European super-state exercising a new dominance from Brussels.

We tend to seek captivity because we are used to seeing freedom as something that has neither frontiers nor responsibilities.

Our Nation's founding commitment is still our deepest commitment: In our world, and here at home, we will extend the frontiers of freedom.

New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure

A feature of science is that as the frontiers of our knowledge are extended, new mysteries, just beyond the frontiers, come into sharper focus

Beyond the limits there lies other limits.

Cowards cannot pass beyond the walls or beyond the wire fences! For them, frontiers are always the end of the road!

We can't see and we can't reach the frontiers of our ignorance; we can only approach to it by extending our knowledge.