
Section 83
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 202
Section 83
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
“Possessing what we still were unpossessed by,
Possessed by what we now no more possessed.”
Source: The Poetry of Robert Frost
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 208
“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
Variant: We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter IX, The Future Of Liberalism, p. 117.
“What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.”
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”