Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust:… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
As I was whizzing around the United States on yet another demented book tour, getting up at four in the morning to… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, outwardly and even in intention humble, does, without meaning it, teach man to regard himself as the most important… — Ouida Copy Share Image
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ...… — Donna J. Haraway Copy Share Image
Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is… — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of… — Stanislav Grof Copy Share Image
I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main object of conciliation lies in reaching a solution to a case based upon morals and with a warm heart — Confucius Copy Share Image
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially… — William James Copy Share Image
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Why can't a photograph be all four things at once? -be an art object; be a document, what ever that means exactly,… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I find that somehow, by shifting the focus of attention, I become the very thing I look at, and experience the kind… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
So we [with Kate DiCamillo] decided to give the friends an object and see what they did with it. The object was… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships… — Mordicai Gerstein Copy Share Image
I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory is as dead as he is. Everyone is surviving, fit or not. Years ago, any kid dumb enough to chase… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness. — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
True vision is always twofold. It involves emotional comprehension as well as physical perception. Yet how rarely we have either. We generally… — Ross Parmenter Copy Share Image
One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When you take the high moral road it is difficult for anyone to object without sounding like a complete fool. — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had a weird one a few years ago when I woke up one night, went to the window and saw a… — Peter Andre Copy Share Image
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