Possessed Quotes - Page 20

• Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.

  Rajneesh

  Hands, Fists, Want

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• Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Land, Sorrow, Gold

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

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• If the multitude is possessed of the balance of real estate, the multitude will have the balance of power, and in that case the multitude will take care of the liberty, virtue, and interest of the multitude in all acts of government.

  John Adams

  Real, Government, Balance

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.377

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• We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society; to make a division of the land into small quantities, so that the multitude may be possessed of landed estates.

  John Adams

  Land, Balance, Liberty

  John Adams, Frederick K. Sanders (1975). “John Adams Speaking: Pound's Sources for the Adams Cantos”

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• We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Exercise, Decision, Information

  Buckminster Fuller (1992). “Cosmography: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity: A Posthumous Scenario for the Future of Humanity”, p.254, The Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Less possessing-less possessed.
  More possessing-more possessed.
  More possessed-less accessed.
  Less possessed-more accessed.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Possessing

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• What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

  Sigmund Freud

  Taken, Fate, Views

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• If culture did not filter, it would be inane - as inane as the formless, boundless Internet is on its own. And if we all possessed the boundless knowledge of the Web, we would be idiots! Culture is an instrument for making a hierarchical system of intellectual labor.

  Umberto Eco

  Intellectual, Filters, Would Be

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• The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

  Plato

  Divinity, Poet, Bondage

  Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”

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• When one is possessed with doubt, that though he call upon the Lord he cannot be heard, and that God has turned him heart from him, and is angry ... he must arm himself with God's Word, promising to hear him.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Doubt, Arms

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• Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible.

  Aristotle

  Opposites, Decision, Employment

  Aristotle, John Henry Freese (1926). “Aristotle: the art of rhetoric”, Loeb Classical Library

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• For one thing, I want gesture-any kind of gesture, all kinds of gesture-gentle or brutal, joyous or tragic; the gesture of space soaring, sinking, streaming, whirling; the gestures of light flowing or spurting through color. I see everything as possessing or possessed by gesture. I've often thought of my paintings as having an axis around which everything revolves.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Color, Space, Light

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• We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.

  Franz Kafka

  Justice, Age, Able

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• We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Men, Hands, Benefits

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• Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.

  James Broughton

  People, Trying, Poet

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• We say that knowledge is not mere talk, but a certain divine knowledge, that light which is kindled in the soul as a result of obedience to the commandments, and which reveals all that is in a state of becoming, enables man to know himself and teaches him to become possessed of God.

  Clement of Alexandria

  Men, Light, Soul

  Clement of Alexandria (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Clement of Alexandria (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

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• Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Home, Thinking

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

  Saint Augustine

  Arrogance, Together, May

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• As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

  David Pajo

  Atheist, Angel, Band

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

  Noel Carroll

  Running, Passion, People

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• Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Might, Persons

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• I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

  Amanda Palmer

  Sexy, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

  Mencius

  Moving, Able, Sincerity

  Confucius, Mencius, Ming Zuoqiu, Tso-ch'iu Ming (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.179

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• A deep sense of sin, a humble willingness to be saved in God's way, a teachable readiness to give up our own prejudices when a more excellent way is shown, these are the principal things. These things the two disciples possessed, and therefore our Lord "went with them" and guided them into all truth.

  J. C. Ryle

  Giving Up, Humble, Two

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.455, Editora Dracaena

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