“Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”

“For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

“First thought: It was a dream
Second thought: No it wasn't
Third thought: Crap”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

“A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.”

Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation

“Typography as the first mechanization of a handicraft is itself the perfect instance not of a new knowledge, but of applied knowledge.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“It wasn't that I had to be first in everything, but I should have been number one.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

“Не does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“The lust of lucre has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.”
Ea invasit homines habendi cupido, ut possideri magis quam possidere videantur.

Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer

“The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn’t.”

James Richardson (1950) American poet

“Do not imagine that it is less an accident by which you find yourself master of the wealth which you possess”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher