“Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.” FaithImpossiblePositionProveIntellectualNegativeStrikesProofArguingLazinessMistakenIntellectual Laziness Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.” PeopleWorldFirstsBelieveKindSeemsOrderSocialAcceptingPovertyMillionsImpossiblePositionSucceedDemandMiseryOur SocietyRebellionContemplatingIntolerancePassiveTrapsRise AboveSocial SystemsOrder To SucceedRise Above It Author:Michael Korda
“There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us. We must have an enlargement of our conception of God, then we will know that we have come to a place where all things are possible, for our God is an omnipotent God for impossible positions.” KnowsImpossiblePositionOughtAll ThingsConceptionOmnipotentEnlargement Author:Smith Wigglesworth
“Economists have put themselves in a position where what they are doing is supposed to be impossible to understand for outsiders, so they dont even talk - sometimes not even with their girlfriend or boyfriend or friends - about what they are doing.” SometimesImpossiblePositionSupposed To BeGirlfriendOutsidersEconomist Author:Thomas Piketty
“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.” MenYearsImportantWarFeelingsFiveImpossiblePolicyPositionLessonsLaborSlaveSilentConvincedFive YearsHumiliationEmancipationBlundersSuffrageImportant LessonsBest Of MeWoman Suffrage Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“It's impossible to represent a saint [in Art]. It becomes boring. Perhaps because he is, like the Saturday Evening Post people, inthe position of having almost infinitely free will.” PeopleArtImpossiblePositionSaintBoringEveningPostsFree WillSaturdaySaturday Evening Author:W. H. Auden
“Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!” IfsRealReligiousLevelsConsciousnessImpossiblePositionParticularApproachLowsIncreaseAbsurdityLow LevelReal Truth Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.” MenBelieveLongEarthFacesAcceptingSawsImpossibleTeachingPositionInspiredCodeHistorianEmancipationDegradeMosaicsGod Inspired Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton