"Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily."
Read quote
12 likes
Limits quotes
Limits
1.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Limits
Browse quotes that often appear alongside limits — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Limits quotes (page 5 of 55)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The end of man (as a factual anthropological limit) is announced to thought from the vantage of the end of man (as a determined opening or the infinity of a telos ). Man is that which is in relation to his end, in the fundamentally equivocal sense of the word. Since always."
Read quote
12 likes
"The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect."
Read quote
12 likes
"Limits, like fear, is often an illusion."
Read quote
12 likes
"Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence."
Read quote
12 likes
"To the size of the state there is a limit, as there is to plants, animals and implements, for none of these retain their facility when they are too large."
Read quote
11 likes
"Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."
Read quote
11 likes
"The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite."
Read quote
11 likes
"I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey."
Read quote
11 likes
"What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. --What are you? -To define is to limit."
Read quote
11 likes
"But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself."
Read quote
11 likes
"No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness."
Read quote
10 likes
"The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it give them, and nothing further should they seek for behind it; there is the limit."
Read quote
10 likes
"If you meditate regularly, even when you don't feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature."
Read quote
10 likes
"What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough."
Read quote
10 likes
"The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power."
Read quote
10 likes
"The fears we don’t face become our limits."
Read quote
10 likes
"When government gets too big, freedom is lost. Government is supposed to be the servant. But when a government can tax the people with no limit or restraint on what the government can take, then the government has become the master."
Read quote
10 likes
"Rascality has limits; stupidity has not."
Read quote
10 likes
"Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?"
Read quote
10 likes