Unthinkable Quotes - Page 8

• For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Purpose, May, Creator

  "A Universe Without Purpose" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

  Antonio Damasio

  Self, Feelings, Would Be

  "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear much about surrendering. If winning is everything, surrendering is unthinkable. Even Christians would rather talk about winning, succeeding, overcoming, and conquering than yielding, submitting, obeying, and surrendering. But surrendering to God is the heart of worship.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Giving Up, Heart

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• My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Editing, Three, Shooting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• ... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Artist, Ornaments

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• Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Limits, Thinkable

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• Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, because her employment indicated that he was a poor provider

  Sandra Scarr

  Husband, War, Work

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• Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.

  Mario Bunge

  Independent, Ideas, Roots

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• You have to be willing to think the unthinkable.

  Toni Morrison

  Thinking, Willing

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• The average film has eight or ten producers on it. That is just in a world that would be unthinkable to me, because to me, to really be a producer of a film, you have to be a line producer.

  Rick McCallum

  Eight, Average, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that`s an idea that`s been hugely influential in conservative politics since Joseph P. Overton thought it up, making radical ideas seem acceptable by advocating for the unthinkable.

  Rachel Maddow

  Using People, Ideas, Political

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• The self identity of Man is transcultural, and thus cannot have any single point of reference. Pluralism is not synonymous with tolerance of a variety of opinions. Pluralism amounts to the recognition of the unthinkable, the absurd, and up to a limit, intolerable. Reality in itself does not need to be transparent intelligible.

  Raimon Panikkar

  Reality, Men, Self

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• It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

  George Orwell

  Forgotten, Should, Adopted

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• A mother's love is supposed to be unconditional. That you could give your child up, over their sexuality, is unthinkable.

  Kim Wayans

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago.

  Dalai Lama

  Unions, Middle East, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

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• In the long run wives are to be paid in a peculiar coin — consideration for their feelings. As it usually turns out this is an enormous, unthinkable inflation few men will remit, or if they will, only with a sense of being overcharged.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Marriage, Running, Men

  Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature "Amateurs" (1974)

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• I love women who are bosses and who don't constantly worry about what their employees think of them. I love women who don't ask, "Is that OK?" after everything they say. I love when women are courageous in the face of unthinkable circumstances, like my mother when she was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer. Or like Gabrielle Giffords writing editorials for the New York Times about the cowardice of Congress regarding gun laws and using phrases like "mark my words" like she is Clint Eastwood. How many women say stuff like that?

  Mindy Kaling

  Mother, New York, Cancer

  "Lena Dunham Hilariously, Candidly Interviews Mindy Kaling". Interview with Lena Dunham, www.rollingstone.com. November 11, 2013.

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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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• Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: as 'art for art's sake' it is unthinkable. A man may sing in his bath every morning without the least encouragement, but no cook can cook just for his or her own sake in a like manner. All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for.

  Andre Simon

  Encouragement, Morning, Art

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• Creativity requires the freedom to consider 'unthinkable' alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices. Every organization, every society is under the spell of assumptions so familiar that they are never questioned, least of all by those most intimately involved.

  John W. Gardner

  Art, Creativity, Practice

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• Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Government, Surveillance Cameras, Shopping

  "A Watchful State" by Jeffrey Rosen, www.nytimes.com. October 7, 2001.

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• They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable.

  Barry Pepper

  Beach, Exhausted, Lays

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• Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.

  Paul Keating

  Australia, Would Be, Unimaginable

  "Ned Kelly and 'Mary Poppins' Writer Among Top Irish-Australians". www.irishtimes.com. August 19, 2009.

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• As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as we would like to believe. Historical inquiry and behavioral science have demonstrated the "banality of evil" -- that is, under certain conditions and social pressures, ordinary people can commit acts that would otherwise be unthinkable.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Believe, Character, Evil

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