Re: Thresholds (and several related others)

["Don E. Z'Boray" <zboray@newbie.net>]

Rob Kall wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for quotations on thresholds, portals, edges, boundaries.
> I'll be happy to share any quotes that come my way.
I hope that these will help you, Rob ... as if there is possibly that
there could possibly be a quotation about this theme of which you are
not already aware.  I'm an Einstein fan and your pages keep getting
crammed into my bookmarks file.  ;-)  I hope one or two of those
provided below shall indeed to be new material to you, but that might
just be a quodlibet.
atb,
-- don  ;-)
don z'boray
oztown, tax_us
as related to government,
ref: http://www.Newbie.NET/4newbies/constitution/US_Constitution.html
        "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
         the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;
         nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or
         property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person
         within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
                - The Constitution of the United States of America,
                  Amendment XIV, 1868
as related to the powers of the Congress,
        "To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing
         for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right
         to their respective writings and discoveries; ..."
                - The Constitution of the United States of America,
                  Article 1, Section 8
as related to the innocence of youth,
ref:
        "Here at the portal thou dost stand,
         And with thy little hand
         Thou openest the mysterious gate
         Into the future's undiscovered land.
         I see its valves expand,
         As at the touch of Fate!"
                - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "To A Child"
>From the Egyptian Book of the Dead: 
        "Speech is to thee to the limits of Heaven."
as related to photography, 
ref: http://rtt.colorado.edu/~keivom/quotes.html
        "I think the best pictures are often on the edges of any
         situation, I don't find photographing the situation nearly
         as interesting as photographing the edges."
                - William Albert Allard, "The Photographic Essay"
        "Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential.
         Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning
         in the distance.  Always, I am on the threshold."
                - W. Eugene Smith
as related to the WWW,
ref: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/PES/97_docs/burbules.html
 An excerpt from a paper for the Philosophy of Education Society, 1997:
        "How do we see the limits of what we cannot see beyond, where
         there is no way out? We can travel almost infinitely within any
         complex network but we cannot travel beyond it; every link
         carries us to another link but, as with space itself, the web
         loops back into itself. It has limits, but no edges. There are
         only variations upon variations; we can experience novelty,
         creativity, even critique within these terms - which are real,
         not illusory - but all paths intersect, ultimately.
         There is no path outside."
        "Aporia: Webs, Passages, Getting Lost, and Learning to Go On"
         Nicholas C. Burbules, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.
as related to language,
        "Three are the spheres in which the world of relation is built.
         The first: life with nature where the relation sticks to the
         threshold of language. The second: life with men where it
         enters language. The third: life with spiritual beings where
         it lacks but creates language."
                - Martin Buber, "I and Thou"
        "Because in our brief lives, we catch so little of the vastness
         of history, we tend too much to think of language as being
         solid as a dictionary, with granite-like permanence, rather
         than as the rampant restless sea of metaphor that it is."
                - Julian Jaynes, "The Origin of Consciousness in the
                                  Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
as related to the theatre,
ref: 
http://asgard.humn.arts.ualberta.ca/emls/iemls/shaksper/logs/93log.txt
        "As actors, our choices are bound not only by what the text
         seems to say, but also by the rules of the director's world
         as established in his/her concept.  Within those rules, we
         are able to do OUR art, finding things that the text only
         intimates and that we find to be reasonable and communicable
         in a meaningful way.  Sometimes we succeed and are called
         competent, sometimes we fail and are called incompetent
         (or worse).  The point being, none of us in the theatre would
         be doing art if there were limits on the possibilities before
         the adventure begins."
                - Timothy Dayne Pinnow, Ass't. Prof. of Theatre,
                  St. Olaf College <pinnow@stolaf.edu>