Objects Quotes
I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.
It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously.
Sometimes a thing is—too much—and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes is—emotion. In the form of objects."-Her Fearful Symmetry
The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
From inanimate object, to microorganism, to plant, to insect, to animal, to human, there is an evolving level of intelligence.
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.
There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking of a picture. The hand is cleverer than the mind.
My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.
High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
Scientific perspective forces the objects in a picture to disappear away from the beholder instead of bringing them within his reach as painting should.
...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.
Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act of looking.
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.
Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.
What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.
Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.
State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.
Different minds incline to different objects; one pursues the vast alone, the wonderful, the wild; another sighs for harmony and grace, and gentlest beauty.
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.
My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history
Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.