There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
When I look at the objects that I draw, it seems to me so obvious about the contemporary world - these are… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Cubism is an anatomical chart of a way of seeing external objects. But I want to confuse the meaning of the act… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the… — Anne Hebert Copy Share Image
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object… this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state… — Alexander Stepanov Copy Share Image
It is commonplace that a problem stated is well on its way to solution, for statement of the nature of a problem… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
You’re getting rid of the things that people used to think were essential to art. But that reduction is only incidental. I… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each… — William Gifford Copy Share Image
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Surrendering completely to love, be it human or divine, means giving up everything, including our own well-being or our ability to make… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Genitive is a funny word because it means "from," but it also is the gender in European languages for objects: the masculine,… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
One time we stayed at a B&B, and there were a couple of hippies who had this nice little area and they… — Rhys Darby Copy Share Image
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa,… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects. — Hasso Plattner Copy Share Image
God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
The whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that, the funnier you will be. — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art… — Carl Andre Copy Share Image
Even a part of an object has value. A whole new realism resides in the way one envisages an object or one… — Fernand Leger Copy Share Image
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere. — Rupert Spira Copy Share Image
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. — Adrian Forty Copy Share Image
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
You cannot commit an act of violence against a non-sentient object, only against a living thing. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image