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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
“it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“The mind . . . entertains the idea of limitless, through the greater difficulty which it finds in entertaining that of limited, space.” Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka
“Happiness means knowing how to limit some needs which only diminish us, and being open to the many different possibilities which life can offer.” Pope Francis, Laudato si'
“just because we've been... dealt a certain hand... it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above — to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“The imagination must be given not wings but weights.” Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
“No conclusions can be more agreeable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limits of human reason and capacity.” David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
“human power is extremely limited, and is infinitely surpassed by the power of external causes; we have not, therefore, an absolute power of shaping to our use those things which are without us.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.” Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You could do whatever you wanted — in the ads and in the articles, ignore your limitations, defy them.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.” Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels

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