A Quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable.
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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 pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world
What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.
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.
Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.
Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.
People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.
When the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Think the unthinkable,
Imagine the impossible
Pursue the imaginations limits.
A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present.
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.
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