Thinkable Quotes

• A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

  Nick Johnson

  Starting, Unthinkable

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• One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  Salman Rushdie

  Events, Extraordinary Things, Unthinkable

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

  John Ashcroft

  September 11, World, Unthinkable

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• A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

  Moses Mendelssohn

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• For the greatest revolutionary changes on this earth would not have been thinkable if their motive force, instead of fanatical, yes, hysterical passion, had been merely the bourgeois virtues of law and order.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Passion, Order

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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• Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

  Helene Cixous

  Thinking, Effort, Decision

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• ... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

  Albert Renger-Patzsch

  Photography, Modern Life, Life Is

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• What is thinkable is also possible.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Imagination

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.35, Courier Corporation

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• Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Limits, Unthinkable

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• There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Pain, Knowledge

  Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

  Tom Peters

  Unthinkable

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• People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Moving, Years, People

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• The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

  Adolf Hitler

  Democracy, Culture, World

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.

  Aristotle

  Character, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Soul”, p.69, Aeterna Press

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• Imagination is a danger thus every totalitarian regime is frightened of the artist. It is the vocation of the prophet to keep alive the ministry of imagination to keep on conjouring and proposing alternative futures to the single one the king wants to urge as the only thinkable one.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Kings, Artist, Imagination

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• In Obama's world, it's Fox News and me that are the reason the Republican base doesn't like him. It can't possibly be that those people actually pay attention, are actually intelligent, informed, and they actually disagree with what he's doing. It can't be that because you are not that smart and independently thinkable. You're like the Democrat base. You're bunch of idiots who only know and do and believe what you're told. There may be a degree of exaggeration in there, but that is exactly how the left looks at their voters, and that's how they look at the whole population.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Believe, Intelligent

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Alternatives, Journalism

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• When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

  Gary Zukav

  Pain, Stopping, Threshold

  FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 28, 2014

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• In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be 'desert'), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen.

  Reyner Banham

  Desert, Landscape, May

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• The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of World Government will be required. . .Even though. . . any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.

  Julian Huxley

  Government, Years, Organization

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• That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

  Frances Hardinge

  Thinking, Want, Unthinkable

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• It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

  Arundhati Roy

  Impossible, Unthinkable, Happened

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• Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow this is what evolution is.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Light, Order

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.

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• It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Knowledge, Complaining, Absurd

  "St. Thomas Aquinas". Book by G.K. Chesterton, 1933.

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