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Letter "P" » possession
«There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.»
«The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world»
«The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Ability,
Mind
| Keywords:
acquires, Anything Else, entitle, entitled, entitles, justly, of his own, possession, taking possession
«Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.»
Author: Epicurus
| About:
Richness
| Keywords:
exhilarate, exhilarated, loss, possession, riches, torment
«The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals»
Author: Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
(Novelist, Philosopher, Thinker)
| Keywords:
general, humanity, individuals, possession, property, the Earth, The General
«See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.»
Author: Robert Collier
| Keywords:
already, belonging, possession, see, Seeing Things, Them, things, think, think of, want
«The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.»
«The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
insatiable, possession, sterilize, sterilized
«The search for truth is more precious than its possession.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Possessions,
Truth
| Keywords:
ITS, possession, precious, search, The Search, truth
«The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite.»
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