The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste. — David Livingstone 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
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for… — Ueli Gegenschatz Copy Share Image
I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
“She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three-year-old self in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
(Nationalism is) a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
In moments of despair, we look on ourselves lead-enly as objects; we see ourselves, our lives, as someone else might see them… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me. — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness. You don't… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination. — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
Just Detach From False Mental Objects And Be Enlightened To Being-As-Is — Baizhang Huaihai Copy Share Image
Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar,… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes. — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
Things only 'show up' for us as they do, as Heidegger would put, in and through practical engagements with the world that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, to think the same thing affects both sight and touch. If the same angle or square, which is… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
When we see a beautiful object, a beautiful garden, or a beautiful flower, let us think that there we behold a ray… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Organizing time is exactly like organizing space. Just as a closet is a limited amount of space into which you must fit… — Julie Morgenstern Copy Share Image
When Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon, he and all the space scientists were puzzled by an unidentifiable white object.… — Lefty Gomez Copy Share Image
My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
So abundant and novel are the objects of interest in a pure wilderness that unless you are pursuing special studies it matters… — John Muir Copy Share Image
