“To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume (1984)
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“Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody’s thought it.”
Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor
Short fiction, Born with the Dead (1974)
“Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
National self-sufficiency http://www.panarchy.org/keynes/national.1933.html, New Statesman and Nation (15 July 1933) <br class="br">Variant: Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
“Try to achieve the impossible and direct your people to ways of achieving it.”
Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (1949) Emirati politician
Leadership & Success quotes, http://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=d2778960a5a11310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&appInstanceName=default, sheikhmohammed.ae.
Paul Goodman book Growing Up Absurd
Source: Growing Up Absurd (1956), p. 38.
“At is taking risks.... a sincere attempt to achieve the impossible, the unknown.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
short quotes, 14 September 1967; p. 68
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1910s, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918)
