Possession Quotes

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

At last the best of artisans ordained that that creature to whom He had been able to give nothing proper to himself should have joint possession of whatever had been peculiar to each of the different kinds of being.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession.

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Germany can generally only pay if the Corridor and Upper Silesia will be handed back to Germany from Polish possession, and if besides somewhere on the earth colonial territory will be made available to Germany.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession - a property entirely our own.

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.

When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

It is a principle of our nature that feelings once excited turn readily from the object by which they are excited to some other object which may for the time being take possession of the mind.