Thinkable Quotes
19 quotes by 17 authors
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Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
— Albert Einstein
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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…
— Adolf Hitler
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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
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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…
— H.G. Wells
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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world
— John Ashcroft
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A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
— Moses Mendelssohn
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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…
— Walter Brueggemann
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Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
— Helene Cixous
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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
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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…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
— Nick Johnson
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
— Salman Rushdie
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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…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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…
— Arundhati Roy
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It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
— Arundhati Roy
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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…
— Frances Hardinge
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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…
— Gary Zukav
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The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts…
— Raymond Moody
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Think the editable and edit the thinkable.
— Nikhil Saluja
Who Wrote These Thinkable Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 19 Thinkable Quotes as follows: