The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The more unharmonious and inconsistent your objects of desire, the more inconsequent, inconstant, unquiet, the more ignoble, idiotical, and criminal yourself. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a… — Kay WalkingStick Copy Share Image
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Strong evidence suggests that we are dealing with a phenomenon that is being caused by palpable, solid objects whose characteristics are not… — Peter Davenport Copy Share Image
...man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The main reason for the colossal objects is the obvious one, to expand and intensify the presence of the vessel - the… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful. Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
