The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for… — Jacques Hadamard Copy Share Image
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The organism cannot be regarded as simply the passive object of autonomous internal and external forces; it is also the subject of… — Richard Levins Copy Share Image
Dentists tell you not to pick your teeth with any sharp metal object. Then you sit in their chair and the first… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly,… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
The acceleration and saturation leads to things becoming outmoded, or out of fashion before they've even happened. That's a pretty complicated situation.… — Kode9 Copy Share Image
This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object is to make him believe that there… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
The father's life is surrounded by mysterious prestige: the hours he spends in the home, the room where he works, the objects… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Our [Republicans'] object is to avoid having stupid candidates who can't win general elections, who are undisciplined, can't raise money, aren't putting… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
The bizarre but all too common transformation of the woman artist from a producer in her own right into a subject for… — Whitney Chadwick Copy Share Image
For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
There is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
You can only photograph a fragment of the here and now. The photograph presents the world as object; language, the world as… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality). — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Photography is motionless and frozen, it has the cryogenic power to preserve objects through time without decay. — Peter Wollen Copy Share Image
Painting is an object, but it's also a voice. I don't see them as objects; I see them as voices. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Materialism, which gives priority to material needs and objects, is obviously the opposite of spirituality — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone. — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure. — Adelaide Crapsey Copy Share Image
The object of man's desire is not to enjoy once only, and for one instant of time; but to assure for ever,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it. — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.” — Leanna Renee Hieber Copy Share Image
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image