Limits

Famous quotes containing the word limits:

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The great ship, Balayne, lay frozen in the sea.
The one-foot stars were couriers of its death
To the wild limits of its habitation.
These were not tepid stars of torpid places
But bravest at midnight and in lonely spaces,
They looked back at Hans’ look with savage faces.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)