Objects Quotes

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them.

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

To model an object is to possess it.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren't present.

God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more.

The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

Every human body has its optimum weight and contour, which only health and efficiency can establish. Whenever we treat women's bodies as aesthetic objects without function we deform them.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot go and found a unified self-consciousness within these limits.

Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

Appliances have idiosyncracies, just like us. Unfortunately they have picked up our less attractive traits - they are proud, spiteful, and unforgiving.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify himself; whatwe object to is his crucifying his wife.

The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the "sensus communis" takes them and considers them.

Is not about creating an object. It is about creating a perspective.

Making an object means imbuing it with its own spirit.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

Joy needs no object; it is our own nature.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation.

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

Instead of physical objects, (in order to have faith in myself) I have my personal mottos/charms to keep myself motivated and then I smack my chest.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.

All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear on a nearer approach.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.