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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus” - 1921

“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” - 1748

“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” - 1984

“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” - 2005

“The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.” Albert Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus” - 1942

“The imagination must be given not wings but weights.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1)
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