The Possessed Quotes
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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?
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.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
I went with an exorcist for a bit. I just want to know really practical things, like how do you hold someone possessed by the devil.
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.
Possessiveness destroys love. And they should not be possessed, because that again destroys your love.
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those...who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.
I don't think I”m a very good actor. Everything is very tentative and at a certain point you click in and just feel the spirit move you. I can be possessed really well.
Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.
Less possessing-less possessed. More possessing-more possessed. More possessed-less accessed. Less possessed-more accessed.
Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.
To be possessed by Jesus and to possess Him - that is the perfect reign of Love.
True love cannot be found where it truly does not exist, Nor can it be hidden where it truly does. Anonymous Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.
The gift of self cannot be given to us. It is an incomparable gift that has already been given. We have possessed it from the beginning.
I have been to Heaven, I've been to Hell, I've been possessed by Lucifer. You can't really get much bigger than that.
In a free government almost all other rights would become worthless if the government possessed power over the private fortune of every citizen.
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.
Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.
If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.
Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.
One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.
For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits