#ible

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#calculation #common #common sense #composed #experience

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#doing #easily #find #genius #impossible

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. ↗

— Kingsley Amis

#horrible #life #people #started #were

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. ↗

— Tori Amos

#amount #anything #because #change #complain

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#god #just #knows #never #terrible

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#literature #possible #sf #theoretically

The most terrible things end, at last. ↗

— James Theodore Bent

#last #most #terrible #things

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul. ↗

— Aristotle

#change #count #exist #i #impossible

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#circumstances #much #music #playing #really

It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible. ↗

— Josef Albers

#me #painter #safe #see #teacher