there are no objects except particular ones and no science…

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

I think dressing up or down should be a creative experience. Exciting. Fun. For me the key to personal style lies in accessories. I…

— Iris Apfel

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

— Sharon Olds

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which at first…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose,…

— Frances Wright

The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

— Dan Colen

He [an earnest young reporter] seemed to share the view of many intelligent, well-educated, well-meaning people that, while adult literature may aim to be…

— Katherine Paterson

At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased…

— Simone Weil

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

— Rumi

How do you, on the one hand, not object to Hillary Clinton being elected, and then, on the other hand, tell people, "Elect me…

— Rush Limbaugh

The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…

— Octavio Paz

The sublime in art is the attempt to express the infinite without finding in the realm of phenomena any object which proves itself fitting…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…

— Richard Baxter