Objects Quotes · Page 18

Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

— Germaine Greer

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

— George Sand

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

— Philip Johnson

Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whether men lie, or say true, it is with one and the same object.

— Darius I

The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.

— William James

Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

— William Shenstone

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

— George Bernard Shaw

This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in…

— Ramana Maharshi

In photography one should surely proceed from essence of the object and attempt to represent it with photographic terms alone.

— Albert Renger-Patzsch

Education-whether its object be children or adults, individuals or an entire people-consists in creating motives.

— Simone Weil

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear…

— Jim Steinman

"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.

— George Clooney

Animals have been reduced to objects for production, and their lives are designed around our needs and desires.

— Liz Marshall

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you…

— Anne Waldman

When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are…

— Andy Goldsworthy

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been…

— Charles Dickens

Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object.…

— Matsuo Basho

[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions…

— John Stuart Mill

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of…

— Plato

I've probably overused this analogy of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight, but, in reality, it's so simple,…

— Biz Stone

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference…

— Henry Parry Liddon

Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We should not be content to say that power has a need for such-and-such a discovery, such-and-such a form of knowledge, but…

— Michel Foucault

The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that…

— Leah Hager Cohen

The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have…

— Mooji

Has he ever trapped you in a room and not let you out? Has he ever raised a fist as if he…

— Lundy Bancroft

... Nothing resembles reality less than the photograph. Nothing resembles substance less than its shadow. To convey the meaning of something substantial…

— Thomas Merton

That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala.…

— Ramana Maharshi

Our ancestors, when about to build a town or an army post, sacrificed some of the cattle that were wont to feed…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and you will accomplish your object.

— Harvey Mackay

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

— Peter Benchley

I think 21st century should be art without objects.

— Marina Abramovic

Settle for nothing less than the object of your desire.

— Alma Luz Villanueva

To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.

— Raoul Vaneigem

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

— Alexander Pope

The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.

— William Ralph Inge

My means are sane, my motives and my object mad.

— Herman Melville