#posses

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#attain #barbarism #greeks #hardly #human

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#century #certain #decade #desires #done

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#accepting #back #demanding #even #expecting

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#divine #knowledge #mission #perennial #possessed

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

#being #equal #harm #health #his

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. ↗

— John Locke

#error #him #man #one thing #possession

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#bill #bill gates #billions #college #companies

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#aroused #astonish #deep #dreamed #dwell

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. ↗

— Karl Marx

#does #fight #history #immense #living

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#efforts #enable #express #her #him