You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object… — Emily Levine 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
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their… — Wendell Phillips 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
It is to Titian we must turn our eyes to find excellence with regard to color, and light and shade, in the… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Some find Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran’s poetry preachy and moralizing, but I find it plenty enlightening—it’s hard to object to the melodic,… — Khalil Copy Share Image
You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
By "essence" I understand a universal, of any degree of complexity and definition, which may be given immediately, whether to sense or… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
I want a future where women and girls get to be the subject of their own sexuality, not the object of somebody… — Jaclyn Friedman Copy Share Image
Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols.… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The function of State coercion is to override individual coercion, and, of course, coercion exercised by any association of individuals within the… — Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse Copy Share Image
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development. — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
If you're a devoted collector of design, you seek out objects you can love to live with but also live in. — Dasha Zhukova Copy Share Image
Among civilized peoples, especially the very wealthy population of the United States of America, women have become objects of luxury who consume… — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? — Alan Watts Copy Share Image