Possible Worlds Quotes

32 quotes by 27 authors

We live in the best of all possible worlds — Gottfried Leibniz
It is not always the most brilliant speculations nor the choice of the most exotic materials that is most profitable. I prefer Monsieur de Reaumur… — Noel-Antoine Pluche
The optimist sees a light at the end of the tunnel, the realist sees a train entering the tunnel, the pessimist sees a train speeding… — James Branch Cabell
Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds." — David Malet Armstrong
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… — Pepper Schwartz
I don't wish to defend everything that has been done in the name of Utopia. But I think many of the attacks misconceive its nature… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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… — Frederick Lenz
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
If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could… — Tim Pratt
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So… — James Branch Cabell
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. — F. H. Bradley
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… — Roberto Unger
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… — Charles M. Vest
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… — Ariel Dorfman
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
A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. — David Chalmers
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire
This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it. — John Adams

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