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  • What is thinkable is also possible.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.35, Courier Corporation
  • 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 (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
  • The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

    H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8611, Delphi Classics
  • Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

    Science   Empty   Schemes  
    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.429, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

  • In the meantime, what is lost is any sense that the Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonial rule is waged from a situation of occupation or expulsion, that there is a military order that controls the boundaries of what would be a sovereign Palestinian state, that the land on which that state is now thinkable has been radically diminished by an ongoing practice of land confiscation and appropriation.

    Military   Order   Land  
    Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.
  • In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be 'desert'), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen.

    Desert   Landscape   May  
  • An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.

    Ink   Bottles   Quaint  
    Jonathan Franzen (2007). “How to Be Alone: Essays”, p.58, Macmillan
  • A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

  • Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of the door.

    Funny   Happiness   Dog  
  • A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

  • 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 (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

  • 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 (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.

    FaceBook post by Gary Zukav from Oct 28, 2014
  • ... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

  • No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense.

    Christopher Hitchens (2004). “Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.433, Nation Books
  • 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.

    Science   Light   Order  
    "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1955.
  • What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

  • 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.

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

    Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

  • General Systems Theory is a name which has come into use to describe a level of theoretical model-building which lies somewhere between the highly generalized constructions of pure mathematics and the specific theories of the specialized disciplines. Mathematics attempts to organize highly general relationships into a coherent system, a system however which does not have any necessary connections with the "real" world around us. It studies all thinkable relationships abstracted from any concrete situation or body of empirical knowledge.

    Real   Lying   Names  
    "General Systems Theory - The Skeleton of Science". Management Science, Volume 2. No. 3, pp. 197-208, www.panarchy.org. April 1956.
  • 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.

    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • 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.

  • The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather - not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for 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). It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.

    Lying   Book   Thinking  
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1998). “Wittgenstein's Tractatus”, McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
  • Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

  • They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. The laws that make grandmothers grandmothers, uncles uncles, mothers mothers, cousins cousins, jam jam, and jelly jelly. It was a time when uncles became fathers, mothers lovers, and cousins died and had funerals. It was a time when the unthinkable became thinkable and the impossible really happened.

    Mother   Cousin   Uncles  
  • The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

  • 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.

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