Top 31 Thinkable Quotes
#1. Is evolution a theory, a system, or an hypothesis? It is much more: it is a general condition to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must bow and which they must satisfy henceforward if they are to be thinkable and true.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#2. 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
#4. 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 us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.
Raymond Moody
#6. 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
#7. Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.
George Santayana
#9. Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.
Jeffrey Bernard
#10. It's hard running as an independent. I wouldn't have won the Senate election if I hadn't been governor. I had credibility. The hard part is getting voters to the point where they think it's thinkable and not a waste of time.
Angus King
#11. 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
#12. Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
Helene Cixous
#13. 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.
G.K. Chesterton
#14. When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Gary Zukav
#15. An ink bottle, which now seems impossibly quaint, was still thinkable as a symbol in 1970.
Jonathan Franzen
#16. The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to all human thought and knowledge... As love, rather, God is thinkable, without a distinction capable of made between essence and existence. Love is essentially existing lovingly.
Eberhard Jungel
#17. You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps. from Best Friends
Martha Moody
#19. God being Who and What He is, and we being who and what we are, the only thinkable relation between us is one of full lordship on His part and complete submission on ours.
A.W. Tozer
#20. A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
Nick Johnson
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
Arundhati Roy
#24. It felt as if a thing that had been impossible had become possible, a thing that had been unthinkable had become thinkable, and Luka did not want to give that terrifying thing a name.
Salman Rushdie
#25. One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Salman Rushdie
#26. There are things you think you won't be able to do, that need the actual to become possible. There are things that only become thinkable once you're already doing them.
Glen Duncan
#27. People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.
Francis Schaeffer
#28. The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
Tom Peters
#29. 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
#30. What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
John Ashcroft
#31. Well, where did it come from?" I asked. "How did I get it?"
"How do we get most things?" he answered.
"We buy them?
David Sedaris
