Objects Quotes

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.

Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. Yet Philanthropos would abolish evil!

Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

Their object is disunion.

It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.

Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

Desire creates its own object.

I like suggesting that ‘we are slaves to the objects around us,’ that ‘plenty should be enough,’ or that the ‘buyer should beware,’ within the context of conventional selling space.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Cultural objects have no notable identity outside of that which we confer upon them. Their value is entirely a product of the interaction that we have with them.

These dudes were 30 years old, and they would compete about getting the best chick. That came before their friendships. Some of them treat women like they're objects. I never felt like that.

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful about things like that.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

I'm all about being prudent. And I've started to appreciate experiences more than actual objects.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]

Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.

Something about the way she moves through the world does not lend itself to the care of fragile objects.

All object printed: Love me. Look me. Million speaking objects,begging. Crown American consumer with power of king, to rescue choose and give home or abandon here for expire.

My work doesn't have the same rules as, say, Andy [Warhol]'s work. But it's gathered together for the simple reason that we all worked with the images and objects around us.

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

You can take an object and simply put anything you want in that object, and I accessed that partly through Freudian ideas.

We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind.

Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality

How else to make a dent in an object as immovable as patriarchy itself...?

Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought.

Where do you learn how to act? Not at church. America is a lot more like pagan Rome than we think. We still sacrifice to objects to gain our social goals.

Do not underestimate objects.

Morals and criticism are not so properly objects of the understanding as of taste and sentiment.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

This is my life, I think. I am an accumulation of objects.

Human paleontology shares a peculiar trait with such disparate subjects as theology and extraterrestrial biology: it contains more practitioners than objects for study.

A lot of directors idealize their leading ladies or turn them into these objects of sexuality and beauty.

So far, as far as we know comet Wild 2 is a unique object.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

Collecting is more than just buying objects.

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.