Quotes About Constraint

Das Mögliche ist beinahe unendlich, das Wirkliche streng begrenzt, weil doch nur eine von allen Möglichkeiten zur Wirklichkeit werden kann. Das Wirkliche ist nur ein Sonderfall des Möglichen und deshalb auch anders denkbar.

Freedom is the recognition of necessity.

It was the most important art a person could learn: self-control.

I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.

VýstrednosÃ…Â¥, premrÅ¡tenosÃ…Â¥ - tá predsa závislý od toho, aká ohrada vás zväzuje.

Nothing exceeds the license occasionally taken by the imagination of very rigid people.

I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

As much as I had always longed to be freed of my duties and obligations, being released from such bonds was as much a severing as an emancipation.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

Ohno is credited with the saying that "having no problems is the biggest problem of all." The result is the most productive automotive manufacturing system in the world today, which is sustaining its lead despite every attempt by its rivals to copy it. It has its origins in the need to overcome a constraint.

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you.

Those who lead double lives do so because they can only count that far

You could attempt to draw any line you wanted, but wet ink always seeped down the page.

A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.

This is the historical reality of the soul, which, unlike the soul represented by Christian theology, is not born in sin and subject to punishment, but is born rather out of methods of punishment, supervision, and constraint.

He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.

In the serene world of mental illness, modern man no longer communicates with the madman: on on hand, the man of reason delegates the physician to madness, thereby authorizing a relation only through the abstract universality of disease; on the other, the man of madness communicates with society only by the intermediary of an equally abstract reason which is order, physical and moral constraint, the anonymous pressure of the group, the requirements of conformity.

L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. —WOODY ALLEN

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

Obedient to constraint, I was compelled to submit

Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.