Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
Melancholy betrays the world for the sake of knowledge. But in its tenacious self-absorption it embraces dead objects in its contemplation, in… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
The task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in the so-called useless object. I mean, it takes perfect craftsmanship, beautiful material carefully measured and crafted,… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. — Lucan Copy Share Image
I've struck up a tremendous intimacy with Conte Alberto, and we literally can't live without each other. He is the first object… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The principal agent is the object itself and not the instruction given by the teacher. It is the child who uses the… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author… — Brian Ellis Copy Share Image
The releasing of attachment to object and certain beliefs was already indelibly written as a very necessary step in my human progress… — Marlo Morgan Copy Share Image
Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The whole machinery of our intelligence, our general ideas and laws, fixed and external objects, principles, persons, and gods, are so many… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
Meditate. Look at the candle flame - or whatever object you have chosen to gaze upon - with intensity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
