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“The subject does not belong to the world but it is a limit of the world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“To define is to limit.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“The time has come to pay renewed attention to reality and the limits it imposes; this in turn is the condition for a more sound and fruitful development of individuals and society.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“This is one of the difficulties which arise when we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this I think is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite...” Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“A woman is shut up in a kitchen or a boudoir, and one is surprised her horizon is limited; her wings are cut, and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“Your goodness must have some edge to it, —else it is none.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit; and that limit you've reached.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“In America the majority raises very formidable barriers to the liberty of opinion: within these barriers an author may write whatever he pleases, but he will repent it if he ever step beyond them.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.” Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
“LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Sometimes, there's just no way to hold back the river.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

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