Objects Quotes
The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.
We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.
Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design.
After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale.
To the newcomer who has not learned its language, a large city is a chaos of details, a vast Woolworths store of differently colored, simlarly priced objects.
My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...
Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him.
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.
Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.
Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they like learning the rules of those objects and what they do.
Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.
Beauty is an inner phenomenon. Beauty is not in objects, not in people, not even in the eyes of the beholder. It lies in the heart of every person
Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others.
Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in order to redeem them
Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.
A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them.
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.
A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.
The trite objects of human efforts-possessions, superficial success, luxury-have always seemed contemptible to me.
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.
You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!
It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.