Quotes About Circumscribe

The only thing for what you are bound is to be in your limit.

If we limit our circle of action, we can give ourselves the illusion of control. The less we attempt, the less chances of failure.

silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the past.

It is unworthy of a man of spirit to be sollicitous to keep himself within the boundaries of human laws, on no other motive than to avoid the temporal inconveniencies attending the breach of them. The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

El determinismo circunscribe la necesidad a otra necesidad, de manera indefinida, sin encontrar jamás algo determinante en sentido propio; de ahí que todo su sistema de lo necesario resulte ser un sistema de lo innecesario, de aquello cuya efectiva presencia no proviene de sí ni de ningún otro, sino de un tercero, respecto del cual se reproduce el mismo dilema irresuelto.

The prime principle then in man's constitution is the social. And the second is not to yield to the persuasions of the body,—for it is the peculiar office of the rational and intelligent motion to circumscribe itself, and never to be overpowered either by the motion of the senses or of the appetites, for both are animal: but the intelligent motion claims superiority, and does not permit itself to be overpowered by the others.

A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.

To circumscribe our freedom of thought because of the delicate sensibilities of suburban paper pushers is the most despicable type of totalitarian tyranny imaginable.

Indeed, lack of self-control may be at the root of all emotional disorders, so named because the person is controlled by anxiety and depression rather than vice versa. Everyone experiences negative emotions; what determines whether they escalate to full-blown disorders may simply be whether the person has the ability to circumscribe them.

Its form doesn't matter: no form manages to circumscribe and alter it. Mirror is light. A tiny piece of mirror is always the whole mirror.

Trust does not cancel our mind but circumscribes it and tames it—and so we do not succumb to fretting or anxious thoughts of being unsure.