I live for that exhilarating moment when I'm in an airplane rushing down the runway and pull on the stick and feel… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind… — Adriana Trigiani 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
Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary. — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion,but determined to judge for himself.He should not be a respector… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
By an object, I mean anything that we can think, i.e. anything we can talk about. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The bottom line is that we've become a nation of thieves, a value rejected by our founders. James Madison, the father of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
The world cannot hold onto you, for the world is not sentient. The world doesn't have a mind nor does it have… — Mooji 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
Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must,… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Self-appearing subjects and objects are the power of the baseless ultimate truth. — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions,… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Most people are not for or against anything; the first object of getting people together is to make them respond somehow, to… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I like that feeling when you’re making art, that you’re taking the energy out of your body and putting it into a… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
John Lennon imagined a world filled with peace and love. Martin Luther King dreamt of a world free from racial discrimination and… — Jon Lajoie Copy Share Image
An 11 year old sister has been taught by the media that her body is an object, will be compared to other… — Rowan Blanchard Copy Share Image
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
There must be something in oneself which is essential. Therefore I refrain from referring to a landscape or certain objects when speaking… — Douglas Portway Copy Share Image
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often… — Hokusai Copy Share Image
When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image