Quotes About Limitation

Hjalmar ... is holding him, he'd put the handcuff on him ... one, not two ... he only had one ...

People that sick simply can't love. They don't have it in them.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.

That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent. What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language.

What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.

O ?em není možno mluvit, o tom se musí ml?et.

I ought to have ... become a star in the sky. Instead of which I have remained stuck on earth.

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

6.45 : To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole—a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole—it is this that is mystical.

We here touch one instance of Wittgenstein's fundamental thesis, that it is impossible to say anything about the world as a whole, and that whatever can be said has to be about bounded portions of the world.

We do this by a variety of means which psychiatrists call defense mechanisms. All of us employ such defenses, thereby limiting our awareness. If in our laziness and fear of suffering we massively defend our awareness, then it will come to pass that our understanding of the world will bear little or no relation to reality.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to that, we cease to love him, and he ceases to be able to become better. We must dare to love in a world that does not know how to love.

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness.

If everything is possible, then it is also possible that something is impossible.

The speed of your success is limited only by your dedication and what you're willing to sacrifice

The only thing limiting your aspiration is your imagination.

One who fishes in shallow waters limits the kind of fish he can catch.

Impossible is a perception based upon a limiting mental illusion. Possible is the belief in the potential of unseen possibility,