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“That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler

“Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the promise and prospect of a transcendent world - far beyond the limits of our human experience - and it remains human, all too human.”

World Giving Humans Atheism Promise Limits Claims Absolutes Remains Errors Possession Positive Atheism Human Experience Heresy Transcendent Absolute Truth

Book:An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“No substance in nature, as far as yet known, has, when it reaches the brain, such power to induce mental and moral changes of a disastrous character as alcohol. Its transforming power is marvelous, and often appalling. It seems to open a way of entrance into the soul for all classes of foolish, insane or malignant spirits, who, so long as it remains in contact with the brain, are able to hold possession.”

Way Long Soul Character Seems Able Spirit Brain Known Moral Class Remains Possession Alcohol Foolish Contact Insane Substance Marvelous Transforming Entrances

Author:Timothy Shay Arthur

“So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched misery if they could find no buyers, the so called “equality before the law” remains a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can also be no talk of a “right over one's own person,” for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if he does not want to starve.”

“Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in suffering they are our equals.”

Way Giving Humans Doe Soul Reason Facts Pain Used Suffering Speak Lines Animal Rights Capacity Remains Possession Superiors Arbitrary Dividing Pain And Suffering Superior Intelligence

Author:Nathaniel Altman

“No one can doubt, that the convention for the distinction of property, and for the stability of possession, is of all circumstances the most necessary to the establishment of human society, and that after the agreement for the fixing and observing of this rule, there remains little or nothing to be done towards settling a perfect harmony and concord.”

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?”

Remember Choices Asks One Thing Youth Materials Remains Possession Our Family Chasing Passing Away Material Possessions

Author:Yasmin Mogahed

“Now although man is created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and causes us to deviate from the true path, in order that he may entirely consume it until nothing remains there but himself; otherwise the soul could never attain stability nor repose, for she was created for no other end.”

Men May Soul Ends Order Causes Understanding Path Accounts Remains Possession Occupation Stability Submit Repose Depraved Deviate

Book:The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

Source: The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

“We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.”

Lying Water Sun Tasks Remains Possession Our Future Undisputed

Author:Wilhelm II

“It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure that he is cooperating or he [Saddam Hussein] is acting in a way that could give us comfort, or should give the international community comfort, that he is giving up his weapons of mass destruction. He continues to give us statements that suggest he is not in possession of weapons of mass destruction when we know he is.”

“If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.”

Ifs Character Strong Race Weak Remains Possession Worthless Egotism Glitter Distinctive

Book:Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

Source: Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

“I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.”

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity

“Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.”

Inspirational Desire Self Improvement Increase Remains Possession Improvement Enjoyment Overconsumption

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes

“At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it. After that, there remains only the journey itself, which is nothing but the process through which we lose our ownership of it.”

Action Lasts Process Loses Journey Discipline Remains Busy Possession Insight Preparation Ownership Self Discipline

Book:Confessions of a Mask

Source: Confessions of a Mask

“Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)