In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot,… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no… — Rudolf Otto Copy Share Image
Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Ego is the movement of the mind toward objects of perception in the form of grasping, and away from objects in the… — Adyashanti 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
The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
…all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice that we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
For me, it's not important whether [subjects] are naked, half-naked, or dressed. What I'm more interested in is how they present themselves:… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
There are three bombs. The first one is the atomic bomb, which disintegrates reality, the second one is the digital or computer… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Perhaps myself the first, at some expense of popularity, to unfold the true character of Jefferson, it is too late for me… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What it does remind us is that 'God' is not to be separated from the quest for the Kingdom of God and… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
What I mean by love ... is this. A sympathetic liking--excited by fancy, directed by judgment--and to which is joined also a… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
But might not his [the president's] nomination be overruled? I grant it might, yet this could only be to make place for… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
I don't want to be an object of consumption. I like to get out there and participate because I care about it.… — Mike Vallely Copy Share Image
I don't pretend to any exemption from the general lot of parental delusion-I mean that like most other parents I see my… — Sara Coleridge Copy Share Image
It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your… — G. Frank Lawlis Copy Share Image
I maintain that the expression of junk and objects has an intrinsic value, and I see no need to look for aesthetic… — Arman Copy Share Image
True interest appears when the self identifies itself with ideas or objects, when it finds in them a means of expression and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle 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
That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
My brothers and sister and I were brought up in an atmosphere which I would describe as 'Puritan decadence'. Puritanism names the… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
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