"possessions"タグの名言

I was surrounded by friends, my work was immense, and pleasures were abundant. Life, now, was unfolding before me, constantly and visibly, like the flowers of summer that drop fanlike petals on eternal soil. Overall, I was happiest to be alone; for it was then I was most aware of what I possessed. Free to look out over the rooftops of the city. Happy to be alone in the company of friends, the company of lovers and strangers. Everything, I decided, in this life, was pure pleasure.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.

Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries woven by some unknown weaver on a far Oriental shore, in some antique time? No. We show our home to our friends with the pride as if it were our home, which it is. Why then should we take less pride when reading a book written by some long-dead author? Is it not our book just as much, or even more so, than theirs? So the landowner says, ‘Look at my beautiful home! Isn’t it fine?’ And not, ‘Look at the home so-and-so has built.’ Thus we shouldn’t cry, ‘Look what so-and-so has written. What a genius so-and-so is!’ But rather, ‘Look at what I have read! Am I not a genius? Have I not invented these pages? The walls of this universe, did I not build? The souls of these characters, did I not weave?

Imagine how much more crazy money would drive us if we could each drive more than one car at the same time.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. And even a cursory glance at the history of the biological sciences during the last quarter of a century is sufficient to justify the assertion, that the most potent instrument for the extension of the realm of natural knowledge which has come into men's hands, since the publication of Newton's ‘Principia’, is Darwin's ‘Origin of Species.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

When our jewellery business went into receivership we avoided bankruptcy by selling our houses and possessions.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.