Quotes About Possibility

It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

for where else could we have really gone?

promising the possibility of discovery while all along dissolving into chaotic ambiguities too blurry to ever completely comprehend.

Unfortunately, denial also means ignoring the possibility of peril.

Victory doesn't mean anything if failure isn't a possibility.

If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. And that's when I realize: I'm not the messenger at all. I'm the message.

Možda svatko može živjeti izvan granica onoga za što se smatra sposobnim.

A ako tip poput tebe može zasukati rukave i u?initi ono što si ti u?inio za sve te ljude, možda može svatko. Možda svatko može živjeti izvan granica onoga za što se smatra sposobnim.

If a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

The word maybe was beginning to annoy me, because the only thing that was fixed was that maybe would be with me for ever. Maybe

I thought you might be too old for such a tale, but maybe no one is.

And why?' He pauses. 'I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

maybe everyone can live beyond what their capable of

Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.

Die Wiederholung des Möglichen ist weder ein Wiederbringen des Vergangenen noch ein Zurückbinden der Gegenwart an das Überholte. Die Wiederholung lässt sich, einem entschlossenen Sichentwerfen entspringend, nicht vom Vergangenen überreden, um es als das vormals Wirkliche nur wiederkehren zu lassen. Die Wiederholung erwidert viel mehr die Möglichkeit der dagewesenen Existenz.

All the propositions of ontology are Temporal propositions. Their truths unveil structures and possibilities of being in the light of Temporality. All ontological propositions have the character of Temporal truth, veritas temporalis.

The task of the grounding of Da-sein by way of thinking and poetry overcomes the question of possibility. That question—How is such and such possible?—is the last implementation of mathematical thinking, which is the result of the dominance of the proposition as such, which in turn is the result of the collapse of ???????.

Understanding the call, Dasein listens to its ownmost possibility of existence. It has chosen itself.

Space, time and context all impose limits on what is possible.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time

There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.

May intelligent, bookish ladies sometimes be reformed? he asked her. She thought about it. I suppose it may be within the bounds of possibility, she said, even if not of probability.