Quotes About Constraint

I]nfinity is not part of the real world.

The king is a prisoner in disguise. All he can enjoy are free meals like a prisoner getting the same pleasure in prison.

You cannot define anything that is beyond your sight and imagination.

There are times in this life when a person must do or say things he doesn't want to. Human beings and chains, it is the oldest acquaintanceship in the world.

Wir müssen das Stundenglas zerbrechen, denn es ist nur ein verlockender Käfig, der uns in der Zeit gefangen hält.

I realized that poverty was a kind of captivity.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.

The rule of captivity is to bend, not break.

Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow.

Words are the food, body, mirror, and sound of thought. Do you now see the danger of words that want to come out but are unable to do so?

El planeta ya no da para +

A drawn line can be many things," he says, whereas a digitized line has to be just one thing.27

Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.

Austeridad, resignación, modestia, según el dogma moderno, son servidumbres ideológicas.

To say that freedom consists of something other than doing what we want is a lie. That it is proper, on the other hand, to limit freedom is an obvious fact. But deceit begins when they seek to identify freedom with the limitations they impose on it.

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

Those who do not think outside the box are easily contained.

A long leash is still a leash.

Necessity has no law.

Having a goal is very different from having an agenda. You want to focus people without constraining them, something that is equally true in a corporate environment.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.