The Best Of All Possible Worlds Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#4. Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

F.H. Bradley

#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. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#14. 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

#15. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

James Branch Cabell

#16. 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

#17. This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. John Adams, U.S. President

George Washington

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. '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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. All is for the best in the best of possible worlds.

Voltaire