#limits

we are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#finitude #freedom #infinity #limits #philosophy

I mean that gods do not limit men. Men limit men. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#limits #men #men

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limits. Now you have to fly 15,000ft above the war zone to avoid getting hit. I don't think there is any point in having wars if that's how you're going to behave. It's pathetic. All this whining! ↗

— Rupert Everett

#any #army #avoid #behave #being

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university. ↗

— Adam Faith

#blue #chip #come #dream #heading

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#discover #go #impossible #into #limits

All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point. ↗

— Robert Collier

#limits #motion #point #possibilities #returns

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#asks #disappear #existence #give #higher

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#both #culture #essence #imaginative #limits

In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young. ↗

— Mary Garden

#aviation #considered #dangerous #early #endurance

Limits are very important. ↗

— Colin Greenwood

#limits #very