Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
To find health should be the object of the doctor. Any one can find disease. — Andrew Taylor Still Copy Share Image
There is a primacy of each individual object. And we'll see! That's the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is,… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to… — Basil W. Maturin Copy Share Image
Time sheds a softness on remote objects or events, as local distance imparts to the landscape a smoothness and mellowness which disappear… — William Benton Clulow Copy Share Image
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their… — Albert Claude Copy Share Image
Open your hands, ye whose hands are full! The world is waiting for you! The whole machinery of the Divine beneficence is… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Jude, a bondslave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who by God the Father have been loved and are… — Kenneth Wuest Copy Share Image
We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the… — Obafemi Awolowo Copy Share Image
Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an… — William James Copy Share Image
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether… — Louis Althusser Copy Share Image
Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world. — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects...and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image