The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither,… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The principal industrial excellence of the English people lay in their capacity of present exertion for a distant object. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What is the object of playing a gambit opening?... To acquire a reputation of being a dashing player at the cost of… — Siegbert Tarrasch Copy Share Image
I don't object to nine aces in one deck. But when a man lays down five aces in one hand... and besides,… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
In contrast we let go of existence, meaning, and the sublime as categories to describe the object “God.” Instead these become ways… — Peter Rollins Copy Share Image
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old -… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of… — Carl Magnusson Copy Share Image
Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
In other words, the propositions of philosophy are not factual, but linguistic in character - that is, they do not describe the… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt.… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
[Cameras] tend to turn people into things and the photograph extends and multiplies the human image to the proportions of mass-produced merchandise… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The object of my worship lies beyond perceptions reach. For those who see, the Ka'ba is a compass, nothing more. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib Copy Share Image
Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning. — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I… — Jim Dine Copy Share Image
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary. — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects… — Joe W. Kelly Copy Share Image
Seems to me that there is no better way to experience the depth of loss than after the fact. No more powerful… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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