Noun
the art of the possible
(chiefly politics) pragmatism, realism
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith
I write fantasy. The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened. Ray Bradbury
The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. Jacques Chirac
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible. Barbara Tuchman