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Possession Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
More Possession Quotes
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a… — Jane Austen
- The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. — Charles Babbage
- The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not… — Gaston Bachelard
- Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. — Francis Bacon
- No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. — James A. Baldwin
- Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? — Natalie Clifford Barney
- First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body,… — Saint Basil
- An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare… — Felix Adler
- Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. — Ambrose Bierce
- Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down… — Pearl S. Buck
- Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession. — Pearl S. Buck