The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human.… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The taste of the more recent accessions to the leisure class proper and of the middle and lower classes still requires a… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision… — Carlo Carra Copy Share Image
No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Human beings are really attuned to their senses. When you work in film, you are working with the visual and audio senses.… — John Dykstra Copy Share Image
In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all.… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“It's not as if we're running a hospital for sick children down here, let's put it that way. Where's the nobility in… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the… — Harry Boyte Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
Compared with men, it is probable that brutes neither attend to abstract characters, nor have associations by similarity. Their thoughts probably pass… — William James Copy Share Image
Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended… — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
We know, from ordinary life, that we are not able to direct our attention perfectly steadily and uniformly to one and the… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of… — Hermann Adler Copy Share Image
I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
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
Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness. You don't… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I can never tire of speaking of the bridges of Paris. By day and by night have I paused on them to… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
Just as the senses require sensible objects to stimulate them, so our powers of observation, recollection, and imagination do not work spontaneously,… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
This dogma (the soul) has been present in human psychology from earliest antiquity. No one has ever touched the soul, or has… — John B. Watson Copy Share Image
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things. It is a completely… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children,… — Andrew S. Draper Copy Share Image
I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not… — Will Cuppy 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
Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
By the artist's seizing any one object from nature, that object no longer is part of nature. One can go so far… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Painting is... a richer language than words... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that would mean engaging with… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Our culture is hung up on and overemphasises what can be derived from material objects. I think this is something quite new,… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
