The inherent capacity for coming into being

Usage examples of potentiality.

Potentiality may be thought of as a Substratum to states and shapes--and forms which are to be received, which it welcomes by its nature and even strives for--sometimes in gain but sometimes, also, to loss, to the annulling of some distinctive manner of Being already actually achieved.

The Intellect subsisting in the totality is a provider for the particular intellects, is the potentiality of them: it involves them as members of its universality, while they in turn involve the universal Intellect in their particularity, just as the particular science involves science the total.

It is absurd to seek such a plurality by distinguishing between potentiality and actuality in the case of immaterial beings whose existence is in Act--even in lower forms no such division can be made and we cannot conceive a duality in the Intellectual-Principle, one phase in some vague calm, another all astir.

Below it, the pigments gleamed in their jars--ochre, saffron, woad, kobold, beet, reseda, calcimine, koal-absolute potentiality.

The one thing that Routh must desperately conceal was any potentiality in himself for making a move or springing a surprise.

That war, and its long-drawn sequelae, released the human mind to the potentialities and dangers of an imperfectly Europeanized world--a world which had unconsciously become one single interlocking system, while still obsessed by the Treaty of Westphalia and the idea of competing sovereign states.

Potentiality exists in the Realm of Sense: but does the Intellectual Realm similarly include the potential or only the actual?

If the soul, on abandoning its place in the Supreme, revives its memories of the lower, it must have in some form possessed them even there though the activity of the beings in that realm kept them in abeyance: they could not be in the nature of impressions permanently adopted--a notion which would entail absurdities--but were no more than a potentiality realized after return.

Thursday and the next, though its odd potentialities ran, no doubt, in most of our minds: its plausibility, that is, its practical incredibleness, the curious possibilities of anachronism and of utter confusion it suggested.

We must avoid identifying Motion with the objects moved: by walking we do not mean the feet but the activity springing from a potentiality in the feet.

They entered the little parlor at the Parsonage looking so beaming, that Olive and Bathsheba exchanged glances which implied so much that it would take a full page to tell it with all the potentialities involved.

It embodies the full potentiality of all that has gone before, realizing it, expressing it.

India paper would have to be requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of its printed integers of units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, the nucleus of the nebula of every digit of every series containing succinctly the potentiality of being raised to the utmost kinetic elaboration of any power of any of its powers.

Below it, the pigments gleamed in their jars--ochre, saffron, woad, kobold, beet, reseda, calcimine, koal-absolute potentiality.

But our true potentialities have been cunningly limited by our lesser group.