#possibility

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#come #conceive #human #human imagination #human society

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#conceiving #either #experience #fact #genuine

The West has always been the epicentre of possibility. One of the ways we forge against mortality is to head west. It's to do with catching the sun before it slips behind the horizon. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#always #been #before #behind #catching

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#acutely #aware #because #cell #cell phones

To get art nowadays, in cinema or books or anything, that grapples with the possibility of a meaningless universe... it just doesn't happen any more. In even the most indie of the indie films, everything has to come to some kind of neat conclusion. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#anything #art #books #cinema #come

Losing my parents really set me adrift in more ways than one. It's not just losing them. It's losing the possibility of family. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#family #just #losing #me #more

In Japan they prefer the realistic style. They like answers and conclusions, but my stories have none. I want to leave them wide open to every possibility. I think my readers understand that openness. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#conclusions #every #i #i think #japan

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#am #beginning #being #fifty #formulated

I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail. ↗

— John Bolton

#haven #i #possibility #prevail #reason

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance. ↗

— Julius Rosenberg

#could #i #possibility #surveillance #under