Objects Quotes · Page 13

“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”

— Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

“People talk about egos as if it were objects.”

— Bob Dylan

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

— Adam Smith

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

— Anne Enright

We see no objects in our universe that could become wormholes as they age.

— Kip Thorne

“I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects”

— Patti Smith

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I wanted to kill art for myself… …a new thought for that object.

— Marcel Duchamp

I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object…

— Scarlett Johansson

...after a certain point, material objects have a tendency to crowd out the emotional needs they are meant to support.

— Graham Hill

The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Van Gaal simply didn't want to work with me, he treats players like interchangeable objects.

— Luca Toni

I wish that every director was as interested in doing as much in camera and with physical objects as much as possible…

— Joseph Gatt

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe…

— Jonathan Swift

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get…

— Russell Baker

Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which…

— Aristotle

Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through…

— Stephen Colbert

I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary…

— L.A. Paul

An object is great in proportion to its power of resistance to time and the elements. That is why we think the…

— Ameen Rihani

The splitting up of color [as Impressionists did] brought the splitting up of form and contour . . . Everything is reduced…

— Henri Matisse

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a…

— Georges Bataille

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe…

— Morris Kline

How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black…

— Andrea M. Ghez

We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer,…

— Chris Marker

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved…

— Saint Augustine

One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual…

— Noam Chomsky

They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license…

— Arthur Miller

I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Picture yourself during the early 1920's inside the dome of the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... Humason is showing Shapley stars he had…

— Halton Arp

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If…

— Abraham Lincoln

You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking you will…

— Rajneesh

In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when…

— Paul Davies

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

It is the fate of every truth to be an object of ridicule when it is first acclaimed.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Martin Puryear

Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.

— Michel de Montaigne

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

— Sherwood Anderson

I do not believe in objects. I believe only in their relationships.

— Georges Braque

I do have a tendency to invest inanimate objects with human qualities.

— Matthea Harvey

If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.

— Helen Gurley Brown