Otto von Bismarck
Statesman, Chancellor
"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."
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Possessing
14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"Can a man possessing conciousness ever really respect himself?"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Writer
"Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like."
Robert Frost
Poet
"Possessing what we still were unpossessed by, Possessed by what we now no more possessed."
Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing."
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