““Time devours our feeble mortality, leaving us with but the sour residue of memory.”
Marvin nodded. “Yet this ineffable and ungraspable quantity,” he replied, “this time which no man may possess, is in truth our only possession.””

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”

“A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet be forced to surrender.”

“You must always possess self-belief and aim at working hard all the time. Our surroundings may force us to forfeit our dreams at times, but we must persevere.”

“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”

“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.”

“A man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”

“It is a natural illness of man to think that he possesses the truth directly…”

“Dogmatism as Nietzsche means it implies that one possesses the truth, or at least the most important or the most valuable truth. Yet the truth is elusive like that woman of whom he spoke at the very beginning. Elsewhere he says we are the first generation which no longer believes that it possesses the truth. That is what he means by the end of dogmatism.”