Cannot Quotes
On what cannot be explained, shrunk, or ignored.
Several quotes here sit at the edge of science and philosophy - the statistical, non-deterministic nature of quantum experiments, and the strange fact that a mind cannot fully comprehend itself. Make offers a more constructive counterpoint.
There is always a secret irritation about a laugh into which we cannot join.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
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You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
Government Quotes
Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
He Quotes
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
Make Quotes
My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the...
We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.
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But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot...
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For related reflections on resolve and permanence, see Government and He.
