To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides — William James Copy Share Image
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model… — Andre Bazin Copy Share Image
If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery? — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
Being in church so often, spending those hours sitting in front of a highly symbolic array of objects, hearing those beautiful texts… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Juggling is very, very straightforward; very, very black and white; you're manipulating objects, not people. And that's always appealed to me. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
There's one uneasy borderline between what is external and what is internal, and this borderline is defined exactly by the sense organs… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
All affectation; 'tis my perfect scorn; Object of my implacable disgust. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The glory of His Father which our Lord sought above all else on earth is still the object of all His desires… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon. — C. Lloyd Morgan Copy Share Image
The foundation of all human knowledge, the beginning of human consciousness, must be that each and every one of us is an… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies.… — Irwin Winkler Copy Share Image
Language, if it throws a veil over our ideas, adds a softness and refinement to them, like that which the atmosphere gives… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Unselfish love does not exploit its object and it does not ask for anything in return. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
the leader releases energy, unites energies, and all with the object not only of carrying out a purpose, but of creating further… — Mary Parker Follett Copy Share Image
A body - physical, astral, dead - might be treated as an object, might be adored and hated. So this story has… — Malgorzata Szumowska Copy Share Image
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush… — Justine Kurland Copy Share Image
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say:… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
The object of a Constitution is to restrain the Government, as that of laws is to restrain individuals. — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image