There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We do not see and estimate the relative importance of objects so easily and clearly from the level or the waving land… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
When one looks into the window of a store which sells devotional art objects, one can't help wishing the iconoclasts had won. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
It is admitted that all men have an equal right to the enjoyment of their life, property and personal security; and it… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
“I see a cathedral, for instance, one that’s stood for centuries and I marvel and I wonder... How many people passed through… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Even an ugly, abject photograph bears the recording of its making... my goal [is] to create dense objects, works in which many… — James Welling Copy Share Image
We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does. — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the object, the relic. And I see it as a time machine too or a device you… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In societies where modern conditions of productions prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
War's very object is victory, not prolonged indecision. In war there is no substitute for victory. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
When we take the position that it is not only the programmer's responsibility to produce a correct program but also to demonstrate… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which… — Charles Negre Copy Share Image
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like… — Elizabeth Ann Seton Copy Share Image
...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative… — Freeman Tilden 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
Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites. — John Piper Copy Share Image
The activity of the immature human being is simply played upon to secure habits which are useful. He is trained like an… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image