Unthinkable/reception

Famous quotes containing the words unthinkable and/or reception:

“There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)