Top 64 Possible Worlds Quotes
#1. I can tell you this. That in the absence of perfect information, I choose to believe in the version of events that would occur in the best of all possible worlds. What that version of events is: that's your decision. That's up to you. I can't decide that for you; I wouldn't try.
Dexter Palmer
#2. For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about what might have been in the past. But that may be the cost for our ability to hope and plan for what might be in the future.
Alison Gopnik
#4. What we are seeking is the nexus of all possible worlds and states of mind, which is within us. The source of yin and yang is within you.
Frederick Lenz
#5. A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.
David Chalmers
#7. So he'll keep dragging himself up this bridge between possible worlds, this rickety ruin of light, trying to imagine it might matter if he makes it to the other side.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#8. If God created humans with the ability to dictate the direction of history (by imagining future states of the universe and steering its path toward one version or another), then humanity's duty to God was to direct history toward the best of all possible worlds.
Dexter Palmer
#9. All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.
Voltaire
#10. The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
F.H. Bradley
#11. Repeat, over and over again, in case anyone forgets it or believes the contrary, that we do not live in the best of all possible worlds.
Luis Bunuel
#12. Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.
Michelle Williams
#13. Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#14. The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#15. It'd be like a combination lock. Every new portal would make the number of possible worlds she could have gone to increase exponentially.
Robert Liparulo
#16. Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.
Saul Kripke
#17. When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.
Colin Wilson
#18. If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
Voltaire
#19. I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.
Ariel Dorfman
#20. In the best of all possible worlds, childbirth enriches a marriage. In the worst, it harms it. No matter how good their marriage is, most couples find that having a baby challenges their relationship.
Jean Marzollo
#21. In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
Mike Wallace
#22. What critics miss, however, is that there is no such thing as non-narrative thought, free of possible worlds and ongoing enactments. There are always multiple narratives at work, framing our perceptions, memories, active thoughts, decisions and actions.
Venkatesh G. Rao
#23. When we imagine our Universe to be just one out of a multitude of possible worlds we devalue this world, the one we see, the one we should be trying to explain.
Roberto Unger
#24. This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.
Neil Gaiman
#25. In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.
Pepper Schwartz
#26. Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.
Frank Herbert
#27. I speculate that this is the best of all possible worlds, for philosophy is the best of humanity, and this world is the best philosophically.
Kedar Joshi
#28. This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President
George Washington
#29. The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.
James Lasdun
#30. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell
#31. The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
#32. Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by creating a subjective sense of "presence" and full immersion in the user.
Thomas Metzinger
#33. Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.
Charles Vest
#34. Candide, terrified, amazed, desperate, all bloody, all palpitating, said to himself: If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? Well,
Voltaire
#35. In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.
Roger Ebert
#36. I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.
David Thewlis
#37. The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.
Jo Coudert
#39. Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.
Woody Allen
#40. I formed several possible stories out of her speech, formed them at once, so it was less like I failed to understand than that I understood in chords, understood in a plurality of worlds.
Ben Lerner
#41. In fact, these possibility collapses happen at the level of elementary particles, but they happen in just the same way: one moment several things are possible, the next moment only one thing happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which they did happen.
Philip Pullman
#42. A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.
Chris Grabenstein
#43. Everyone in heaven is in God's kingdom. They are in the 100 percent blue portion of the map. But not everyone in God's kingdom is in heaven. Is it really possible to live in two worlds at the same time? Absolutely! If you are a Christian, you already are!
Van Harden
#44. This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.
Hermann Oberth
#45. Without realizing it, I fought to keep my two worlds separated. Without ever knowing why, I made sure, whenever possible that nothing passed between the compartmentalization I had created between the day child and the night child.
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Marilyn Van Derbur
#46. It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
Albert Einstein
#47. What if you could find brand new worlds, right here on Earth, where anything is possible? Same planet, different dimension. I've found the gateway.
Jerry O'Connell
#48. I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.
Harry Treadaway
#49. There were no parallel realities. No imaginings created infinite worlds for every possible decision.
C.D. Reiss
#50. I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.
Sarah Kay
#51. Backpacking has noble ideals: to see how the locals live, to interact with them, to be respectful and blend in as much as possible. Backpackers want to learn, we want to understand the worlds we have entered, not simply consume them.
Rachel Friedman
#52. If you are to believe that there are an infinite amount of universes with an infinite amount of possible variations on the laws of nature, then you are forced to admit that it is quite certain that in one of these parallel worlds dragons exist.
Lewis N. Roe
#53. One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen.
Philip Pullman
#54. 'With God all things are possible' (Mk. 10:27). With God the thought itself is deed. He speaks and it is. Short and clear. And all the worlds stand by the Word of God.
John Of Kronstadt
#55. In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory.
Michael Reaves
#56. It is possible with pure willpower to force the kundalini up the shushumna, through the chakras. You will develop visions of other worlds that will not necessarily stop when you want them to. This is a condition we call insanity.
Frederick Lenz
#57. I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.
Benjamin Percy
#58. Our circumstances are unusual and we come from different worlds, but if you'll let me, I'll take you to the gates of heaven. I'll love your body and give you pleasure that you never thought possible.
Sable Hunter
#59. It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.
Edward Betts
#60. Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.
Claire Colebrook
#61. As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.
Gao Xingjian
#62. But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?
David Eddings
#63. It's not that Natasha wants to let Daniel go; it's that she has to let go. It isn't possible for her to live in two worlds simultaneously, heart in one place, body in another. She lets go of Daniel to avoid being ripped apart.
Nicola Yoon
#64. If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.
Rudolf Steiner
