“Without trying to clear up the degree of correctness of a qualification which no one, one must hope, will be asked to understand exactly, I will limit myself to a few words of explanation to cut short any misunderstandings.” TryingClearCuttingLimitsDegreesExplanationMisunderstandingCorrectnessQualificationsFew Words Author:Gustave Courbet
“Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.” MayHas BeensAbleLawVirtueRightsCrimeLimitsDegreesSacredExtremesInnocence Author:Jean Racine
“I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?” ArtPowerfulConsciousnessMoralPossibilityPersonalityLimitsDegreesRaisesNotesSavingWorks Of ArtDoomedRepetitionRefrainHazardsPossibility Of ChangeMoral Hazard Author:Adam Ross
“How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.” PhilosophyBodyIndividualKnownLimitsDegreesDistanceMedicineSpeciesSensesFacultySensationsSoma Book:The Guide for the Perplexed Source: The Guide for the Perplexed
“The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impressed him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to meditate upon his frailty as a creature of temperature, and upon man's frailty in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold; and from there on it did not lead him to the conjectural field of immortality and man's place in the universe.” MenFactsAbleCertainUniverseImaginationTroubleFieldsColdCreaturesLimitsDegreesOddImmortalityUncomfortableHeatFiftySignificanceZeroImpressedEightyTemperatureFrostFrailtyHeat And Cold Book:To Build a Fire Source: To Build a Fire
“...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward and, just when you thought you'd reach your limit, begin to spread sideways, and spill out, and touch other people, and mix with their pain. And grow larger, but somehow less oppressive. She had thought herself trapped in a place outside the ordinary feeling lives of people; she had not noticed how many other people were trapped in that place with her.” PeopleFeelingsMightPainGrowsLimitsDegreesOrdinaryUnderstoodSpreadScalesTrappedSpillsSideways Author:Kristin Cashore
“Keep ramping up your level of joy every day. There is no limit to the levels of joy you can reach. You will see change to the degree of joy that you can attain and maintain. The higher the joy you can create within you, the more spectacular the change, and the higher the joy, the faster the change. Your emanation of joy attracts more Joy. The law of attraction will continually send you more feelings of joy!” FeelingsHappinessLawJoyLevelsHigherLimitsDegreesAttractionLaw Of AttractionFasterWithin YouSpectacular Author:Rhonda Byrne