Even in expecting, one leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it.

Martin Heidegger
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In the quote, “One leaps away from the possible and gets a footing in the real. It is for its reality that what is expected is expected. By the very nature of expecting, the possible is drawn into the real, arising from it and returning to it”, Pascal was offering a philosophical statement. He was saying that when people expect something to happen, they have already chosen to believe in it.

This means that what you expect will happen might not really happen but if you believe in it enough then it becomes a fact. For example, when you expect a certain person to arrive at a certain time, even if they do not arrive at that exact moment, you will still have been carried away by the idea of what the person should be doing at that time. In this way, your expectations can influence your judgment and lead to actual events that come much sooner than you thought they would.

Source: Being And Time

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