Objects Quotes

The only object of liberty is life.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Morality is the object of government.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Theology is a subject without an object

— Dan Barker

What would you do if money was no object?

— Alan Watts

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

— Leonora Carrington

Know thyself; this is the great object.

— Seneca the Younger

The Text is not a definitive object.

— Roland Barthes

Poetry's object is truth.

— Christine de Pizan

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

— Radhanath Swami

“We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.”

— Maurice Blanchot

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

— Mark Twain

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

— Andre Malraux

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

— Thom Gunn

Objects are better than text at conveying narrative

— Neil MacGregor

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

It's my object to be stared at like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.

— Bill Hicks

The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse,…

— James Elkins

Devotion is about you. Maybe you use another object as inspiration, but you change your quality; you walk more joyfully, gently upon…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

— John Dewey

When you're working with an object, you can put in almost anything you want, you can make it abstract.

— Claes Oldenburg

A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

— Kay WalkingStick

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.

— Steven Sebring

the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from…

— David Hume

I don’t think there’s any such thing as male objectification…I think that word exists only with women because there are societal pressures…

— Joe Manganiello

Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream…

— Fernando Pessoa

Appropriation is the idea that ate the art world. Go to any Chelsea gallery or international biennial and you'll find it. It's…

— Jerry Saltz

First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and…

— Orhan Pamuk

Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little…

— Frederick Lenz

No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found…

— Charles Babbage

Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another man's enclosed pleasures: and…

— Jeremy Taylor

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

— James Fitzjames Stephen

And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose…

— Abraham Lincoln

Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden…

— Sigmund Freud

The effects of heat are subject to constant laws which cannot be discovered without the aid of mathematical analysis. The object of…

— Joseph Fourier

Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do…

— Pierre Duhem

Happiness has to be installed in each person as a state of affairs completely cut off from the process that brought it…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that…

— William Hazlitt