Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works… — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown. . . .… — Stuart Briscoe Copy Share Image
Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin and the whole idea of a new attitude to money: "Time is money." He invented that idea. Before that, time… — Tom Hodgkinson 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
A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The object of our being placed upon this earth is that we may work out an exaltation, that we may prepare ourselves… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the… — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I see no reason in morality, why literature should not have as one of its intentions the arousing of thoughts of lust.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friendship is a serious affection; the most sublime of all affections, because it is founded on principle, and cemented by time. The… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
In the beginning [of my social media life], I started posting and someone I'm close to said, "you're only posting pictures of… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Why should we all use our creative power…? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I do love improvisation, I love when I find an object in my studio or kitchen (look, a tea sample's tiny glass… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as… — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another,… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
When the coherence of the parts of a stone, or even that composition of parts which renders it extended; when these familiar… — David Hume Copy Share Image
By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or… — Frank Horvat Copy Share Image
Every photograph is the result of a physical imprint transferred by light reflections onto a sensitive surface. The photograph is thus a… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image