The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
All knowledge is oriented toward some object and is influenced in its approach by the nature of the object with which it… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I happen to love engineering. I love figuring things out in a spatial sense, that whole realm of working with mechanical parts,… — Arthur Ganson 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 old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When men are about to commit, or sanction the commission of some injustice, it is not uncommon for them to express pity… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense.… — Thomas Sowell 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
“According to Diotima, Love is not a god at all, but is rather a spirit that mediates between people and the objects… — Plato Copy Share Image
The message of biblical Christianity is 'God loves me so that I might make him- his ways, his salvation, his glory, and… — David Platt Copy Share Image
In one sense 'there are' both universals and material objects, in another sense there is no such thing as either: statements about… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
But all categories of art, idealistic or realistic, surrealistic or constructivist (a new form of idealism) must satisfy a simple test (or… — Herbert Read 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
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
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There are objects you may desire but cannot explain. There are objects that are not nouns, there are actions that are not… — Charles Yu Copy Share Image
People only have true understanding when they look at everything from God's perspective. Authentic wisdom begins when we understand that God is… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The Blessed Sacrament is the first and supreme object of our worship. We must preserve in the depths of our hearts a… — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Is it really that much better to make friends with animals before you kill them than to treat them as nameless, faceless… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but… — Jones Very Copy Share Image
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and,… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Writing is like sex. You have to save your love for the love object. If you go around spouting about your idea,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
He wouldn't talk to me for two months. I was like, 'What an ass**le.' Actors are used to getting their way and… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
Wake up and realize this is all made up of thoughts, just thoughts. Your appreciation of beauty is a thought; your aversion… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential,… — James Madison Copy Share Image