Quotes About Conceivable

the crime of my existence in the world, was invisible and inconceivable.

each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

We might state the argument by which [idealists] support their view in some such way as this: 'Whatever can be thought of is an idea in the mind of the person thinking of it; therefore nothing can be thought of except ideas in minds; therefore anything else is inconceivable, and what is inconceivable cannot exist.

Whatever can be thought of is an idea in the mind of the person thinking of it; therefore, nothing can be thought of except ideas in minds; therefore, anything else is inconceivable, and what is inconceivable cannot exist.

We might state the argument by which they support their view in some such way as this: 'Whatever can be thought of is an idea in the mind of the person thinking of it; therefore nothing can be thought of except ideas in minds; therefore anything else is inconceivable, and what is inconceivable cannot exist.

So it's conceivable I'll do something insane, or more insane than Dawn of the Dead. If that's possible.

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.

I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Is it really conceivable, given all of that immensity, all that structure, that we are truly alone? That life emerged here, and nowhere else?

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

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.

I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789.

literature is not conceivable without philosophy or the other way round

Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to argue against the thesis that everything is purely physical. Now many people, I think, agree that the idea of zombies are conceivable, including people who want to be physicalists.

Highly unlikely but not impossible.

the alternative would have been inconceivable.

It is inconceivable that CNN's morning show or any other show could be anything but horribly boring. Why? Because they won't let anyone take risks.

Unimaginable perhaps; but the unimaginable is there to be imagined.

No standard exists for the peculiarity and ridiculousness of things, not even one that is unspeakable or unknowable, words which are merely a front or a subterfuge. These qualities – the peculiar and the ridiculous – are immanent and absolute in all existence and would be in any conceivable existent order . . .

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

In that spirit, a lower-impact society is the most impossible scenario for our future—except for all other conceivable scenarios.

work is elevated by our daily environment into something that is appropriately done everywhere and at every conceivable moment.

Un milagro tan adicional como adicional es todo: lo impensable se puede pensar.