Unthinkable Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Reality, Ideas

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1995). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969”, p.93, University of Chicago Press

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• Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Judging, Creative

  Albert Einstein (2007). “The World As I See It”, p.9, Book Tree

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• It is unthinkable that a national government which represents women should ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

  Lucy Burns

  Freedom, Women, Rights

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• The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

  Tom Peters

  Thinkable

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• To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

  Virginia Woolf

  Oneself

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1423, Delphi Classics

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• In a world of moral certainty, the unthinkable becomes permissible.

  Cullen Murphy

  World, Moral, Certainty

  Cullen Murphy (2012). “God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Internet has made me very casual with a level of omniscience that was unthinkable a decade ago. I now wonder if God gets bored knowing the answer to everything.

  Douglas Coupland

  Knowing, Bored, Answers

  "Transience Is Now Permanence & the Fate of the Middle Classes (Doomed)". The Edge Annual Question — 2010: "How Is the Internet Changing the Way You Think?", www.edge.org. 2010.

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• Without a rope there is no fear beacuse to fall is unthinkable.

  Catherine Destivelle

  Fall, Rope, No Fear

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• Infinite possibilities exist to create the previously un-creatable, think the unthinkable and do the undoable-it's an extraordinary time to be alive.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Thinking, Alive, Infinite

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• Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.

  Henry Miller

  Life Is, Coca Cola

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.258, New Directions Publishing

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• We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

  Petra Kelly

  Add, Generations, Next

  Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace

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• We who have grown up on a diet of honour and shame can still grasp what must seem unthinkable to people living in the aftermath of the death of God and of tragedy: that men will sacrifice their dearest love on the implacable altars of their pride.

  Salman Rushdie

  Pride, Sacrifice, Men

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• I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

  John Shirley

  Thinking, People, Trying

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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, September

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• The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

  Luis Figo

  Football, Motivational Sports, Mistake

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• In many parts of the world-including Polynesia, north Africa & the Middle East-public dancing that focused on a physically linked couple would have been unthinkable, a violation of communal propriety.

  Gerald Jonas

  Dance, Couple, Dancing

  Gerald Jonas (1998). “Dancing: The Pleasure, Power, and Art of Movement”, Turtleback Books

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• While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

  Michael Polanyi

  Learning, Knowledge, Management

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• To me it is unthinkable that a real atheist could be a scientist.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Atheist, Real, Atheism

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• How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Country, School, Garden

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• We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Choices, Innocence, Guilty

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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• Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

  Robert Silverberg

  Robert Silverberg (2004). “Phases of the Moon: Stories of Six Decades”, Subterranean

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• Each person is a temporary focus of forces, vitalities, and values that carry back to an immemorial past and that reach forward into an unthinkable future.

  Lewis Mumford

  Past, Thought Provoking, Focus

  "Faith for Living". Book by Lewis Mumford, 1940.

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• Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

  Karl Marlantes

  Pain, Leaving, Weakness

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.21, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

  Ronald Knox

  Catholic, Mind, Unorthodox

  Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1913). “Some Loose Stones: Being a Consideration of Certain Tendencies in Modern Theology Illustrated by Reference to the Book Called "Foundations,"”

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• Think the unthinkable,
  Imagine the impossible
  Pursue the imaginations limits.

  Allan Weisbecker

  Dream, Thinking, Imagination

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