It is the condition of our present state to see more than we can attain; the exactest vigilance and caution can never… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have some beautiful 20th-century drawings and a few paintings, but I'm not a collector, and I'm not particularly attached to objects. — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
Nowadays the thief cannot be distinguished from his victim. Neither has any valuable objects on him. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The mind itself is an art object ... The mind is a blue guitar on which we improvise the song of the world. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a… — Terence Conran Copy Share Image
Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Objects of Appreciation: Every time you go to use a utensil or instrument, take pleasure and feel gratitude for the fact that… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to each other. I've got lots of… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don’t have a theoretical language for music. I’m really inspired by sculpture, so I like to say, ‘you’re not making music,… — Daniel Lopatin Copy Share Image
You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment - their greatest object being… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When the pangs shoot through our body, and ghastly death appears in view, people see the patience of the dying Christian. Our… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
[The church] is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Men look on knowledge which they learn--or might learn--from others as they do on the most beautiful structures which are not their… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more… — Hans Wilsdorf Copy Share Image
Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed.… — Gerard Verschuuren Copy Share Image
We don’t go further than what Marx called the exchange value of the actual object - we don’t think about the relations… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
By a commodity we shall understand any object, substance, action or service, which can afford pleasure or ward off pain. — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
God created the visible world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the awkward part of it all is that… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
“They are not objects. They are places, places where some little thing is about to come into being” — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes… — Matt Smith Copy Share Image
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object. — Mary Fairfax Copy Share Image
It is the beauty of women, and the fact that they are the focus, that they are sex objects in a positive… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously. — John Maeda Copy Share Image
The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak… — Eiji Yoshikawa Copy Share Image
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