A Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein

What is thinkable is also possible.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian - Philosopher
April 26, 1889 - April 29, 1951

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present

Moses Mendelssohn

A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.

Moses Mendelssohn

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

It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.

Elif Batuman

The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.

Tom Peters

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

C. S. Lewis

Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.

Jeffrey Bernard

There is an increasing push to compartmentalize faith separately from our life in the public square - and it's not possible - at least, it's not possible if we continue the American tradition of true individual freedom, which also implies individual responsibility. Without an objective moral standard, that's not possible.

Mike Huckabee

When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

Oscar Hijuelos

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

Albert Renger-Patzsch

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world

John Ashcroft

It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened

Arundhati Roy

What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.

John Ashcroft

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?