Quotes About Possibility

Se puede hacer dinero de la nada?

Una ambigua insatisfacción —magnánima o mezquina— nos impide reposar. El proyecto actúa como un proyectil para horadar la realidad y ampliarla con lo posible. Ciertamente, la posibilidad puede ser feroz, pero en su origen es esperanzadora.

Ho letto questi libri e posso raccontarti cosa dicono. Dicono: "L'impossibile non esiste.

nuestra vida es en todo instante y antes que nada conciencia de lo que nos es posible

El mundo o nuestra vida posible es siempre más que nuestro destino o vida efectiva

Hoje, de tanto que tudo nos parece possível, pressentimos que também o pior seja possível: o retrocesso, a barbárie, a decadência.

The here and now is a prison house. We must strive, in the face of the here and now's totalising rendering of reality, to think and feel a then and there. Some will say that all we have are the pleasures of this moment, but we must never settle for that minimal transport; we must dream and enact new and better pleasures, other ways of being in the world, and ultimately new worlds.

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.

I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. —David Sedaris

When people run out of probable things to do, they do improbable things.

To my mind losing is always better than never trying, because you can never tell what may happen.

was temporarily suspending my disbelief, to allow an unusual experience to happen.

These concepts implied fixed futures, parallel universes, and an overall or grand design, doing away with innovative or changing possibilities.

You have infinite riches within your reach

Could blind cats be heroes? Jaypaw wondered. Perhaps . . .

But who exactly wanted you to look beyond the obvious choices?

I feel I am on a high. For the first time in a very long while I have a feeling that anything can happen. This morning I woke up thinking everything could happen, that things would just come to me, and that they would be good.

La eternidad es algo muy distinto a lo sencillamente enorme o inconcebiblemente grande. Si el universo tiene un tiempo ilimitado a su disposición, no significa solo que todo puede suceder. Significa que todo va a suceder. Por muy inverosímil que sea o por mucho tiempo que lleve, antes o después ocurrirá todo. Eso significa que si yo viviera para siempre, lo haría todo y me pasaría todo.

Now, thanks to the ONI, I could. And I did.

And the only thing you can do is keep right on playing. Because the game that is your life still isn't over yet. And there's no telling how far you might be able to get, what you might discover, or who you might meet when you get there.

Then she snapped her fingers and we were standing on Europa, discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life beneath the moon's icy crust. I

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.