Limits Quotes - Page 42

What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity? Even if it turns out to be for the general interest (which generally isn't true), the activity that subordinates each of our aspects to a specific result suppresses our being as an entirety. Whoever acts substitutes a particular end for what he or she is, as a total being.

But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with an elusive beyond.

The terrorists know that the outcome will leave them emboldened or defeated. So they are waging a campaign of murder and destruction. And there is no limit to the innocent lives they are willing to take.

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.

I have a real interest in pushing some of the limits of things that studios don't want to make.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion.

I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

Beyond the astral dimensions are the causal dimensions. They are not spatial or time oriented. They are planes of light, and they make up the outer limits of nirvana.

When every aspect of your life is impeccable, then you will find that there's no limit to your journeys into the infinite.

Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.

There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

When we say we have "hit the limits," we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.

If we start with "limits" and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.

Human sympathy has its limits.

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

It is consciousness that sets all limits of life, if there are any limits.

It turns up the heat under a narrative when you limit the characters in their movements or their freedoms.

I think my strongest suit is comedy. I certainly have limits in other areas.

Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.

These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages.

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.