Quotes About Possibility

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

This sense of possibility might not last, of course Nothing ever did. But she wasn't going to spoil it by looking too far ahead. They were safe in the Library, and the Library would endure.

I prefer a more stable game." He tapped the chess-board meaningfully. "Games of strategy which rely on agreed rules and which avoid all semblance of luck are far more to my taste than cards or dice. I like to know where all the pieces are. I like to know what's possible in a game. I don't appreciate being surprised. Would you agree, Miss Winters?

Woyzeck - Gidiyorum ben, herÅŸey umulur. Ä°nsan! Her ÅŸey umulur.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

you can build an organ which can do anything that can be done, but you cannot build an organ which tells you whether it can be done."9 "This is connected with the theory of types and with the results of Gödel," he continued. "The question of whether something is feasible in a type belongs to a higher logical type.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

The historian, as an historian, has no categories that allow for the resurrection, ascension, and glorification of Jesus, and the possibility of the appearance of such a glorious heavenly being to human beings in history. There is, however, no adequate historical, i.e., human, explanation of Saul's Damascus experience

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But

Some things can come to pass, he reminded himself. Some things are improbable, and some are impossible.

Are you out of your mind?" It's not polite to lie to your best friend. "It's a possibility.

Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim?

Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility of such an a priori knowledge.

There are such manifold forms of nature; there are many modifications of the general transcendental concepts of nature that are left undetermined by the laws furnished by pure intellect a priori because these laws only concern the general possibility of nature as an object of the senses.

That there may be inhabitants in the moon, although no one has ever observed them, must certainly be admitted; but this assertion means only, that we may in the possible progress of experience discover them at some future time.

B626 Sein ist offenbar kein reales Prädikat, d.i. ein Begriff von irgend etwas, was zu dem Begriffe eines Dinges, oder gewisser Bestimmungen an sich selbst... B627 Und so enthält das Wirkliche nichts mehr, als das bloss Mögliche. Hundert wirkliche Thaler enthalten nicht das mindeste mehr, als hundert mögliche... Aber in meinem Vermögenszustande ist mehr bei hundert wirklichen Thalern, als bei dem blossen Begriffe derselben, ( d.i. ihrer Moeglichkeit ).

My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and, disregarding all that has been done, to propose first the preliminary question, "Whether such a thing as metaphysics be at all possible?