Actual Possession

Famous quotes containing the words actual and/or possession:

    “Mathematics ... would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)