“I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours. He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.” IfsWayMayMeanDoneEnoughGivenBreakTearsLimitsRemainsAffairTireAnarchismBreak ThroughToiling Author:Max Stirner
“Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.” WorldGivingHumansAtheismPromiseLimitsClaimsAbsolutesRemainsErrorsPossessionPositive AtheismHuman ExperienceHeresyTranscendentAbsolute Truth Book:An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture
“What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.” IfsMenUseActionFieldsLimitsRemainsIndividuality Author:African Spir
“To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and measured square miles.” MenVisionCenturyLimitsInfiniteRemainsDepthWideMilesSquaresExpansionWisestWisest Man Book:Carlyle Reader Source: Carlyle Reader
“to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear--filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.” WorldHumansHeartMadeSometimesLyingSpeakLanguageWishSilenceCompanyWonderCryLimitsRemainsHeavyMade ItPerceivePregnantCurvesVeilsHuman ExperienceFillingGrandeurOrnamentsUnbrokenIneffableInscrutable Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel