“Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.” PeopleLove IsLimitsSacredDefinitionsSanctity Author:Jennifer Beals
“Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.” IfsThinkingWould BeLanguageHalfCuttingCoupleLimitsMusic IsOneselfDefinitionsPeculiarDictionaryIlliterateAvant GardeNew Music Author:Archie Shepp
“It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".” ThinkingWritingMeanHardSpiritValuesSimpleCommonActivityLimitsDefinitionsExplorationDisplayExploringClevernessHacksHackingPlayfulness Author:Richard Stallman
“Sure, some [teachers] could give the standard limit definitions, but they [the students] clearly did not understand the definitions - and it would be a remarkable student who did, since it took mathematicians a couple of thousand years to sort out the notion of a limit, and I think most of us who call ourselves professional mathematicians really only understand it when we start to teach the stuff, either in graduate school or beyond.” ThinkingGivingYearsWould BeSchoolStuffTeachTeacherStudentsCoupleThousandLimitsStandardsNotionDefinitionsRemarkableGraduatesMathematicianThousand YearsGraduate SchoolFormal Education Author:Keith Devlin
“No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.” WorldHumansMaySpiritSecretLimitsDepthDefinitionsRangePassagesHuman Spirit Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.” ThinkingShouldLooksReasonUseSeemsUniverseMorningLimitsNewsDefinitionsSensesBoundariesCompareContrastDictionary Author:Alan Watts
“For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.” MenWorldFirstsStillsCountryHardActionViewsAttitudeAcceptingProgressSharePossibilityHard WorkSucceedLimitsOptimismInfiniteDefinitionsOur CountryPhrasesI've LearnedTrendsGangJacketsInfinite Possibilities Book:Invisible Man Source: Invisible Man
“Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit.” NeedsGivingAsksLinesLimitsFinalsDefinitionsBoundariesThis LifeBordersTextureWhite Noise Book:White Noise Source: White Noise
“The only true liberty is in the service of that which is beyond all limits, beyond all definitions, beyond all human appreciation: that which is All, and which therefore is no limited or individual thing: The All is no-thing, for if it were to be a single thing separated from all other things, it would not be All.” IfsHumansSpiritualSpiritualityIndividualLibertyLimitsDefinitionsAppreciation Book:Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation