[Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that… — Marin Mersenne Copy Share Image
And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A museum is like a valuing machine. Museums and the industrial society started at the same moment, and they're really tied into… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
I sometimes am challenged to imagine where the timbre of art should be. Should it be about objects that point to this… — Theaster Gates Copy Share Image
[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms… — Victor Cousin Copy Share Image
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious. There are objects approximating the shape of a disc, some of which… — Nathan Farragut Twining Copy Share Image
We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
By exposing the multiplicity, the facticity, the repetition and stereotype at the heart of every aesthetic gesture, photography deconstructs the possibility of… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
I strongly object to the fact that so many newspapers have given the American public and the world the impression that I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be… — John Paul Stevens Copy Share Image
“I’m relieved to see that even brilliant physicists make mistakes.” Kohler looked over. “What do you mean?” “Whoever wrote that note made… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
When you walk around, your vision system is processing a whole bunch of signals in milliseconds and judging that a visual object… — Usama Fayyad Copy Share Image
Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
Ye are God's building -- All hands of the glorious Trinity are at work in this building. The Father chose the objects… — Thomas Boston Copy Share Image
Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of… — Robert Heinecken Copy Share Image
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Physiology is the science which treats of the properties of organic bodies, animal and vegetable, of the phenomena they present, and of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You yourself are time- your body, your mind, the objects around you. Plunge into the river of time and swim, instead of… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're… — Jim McDonough Copy Share Image
This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of… — Tobsha Learner Copy Share Image
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects.… — Nigel Cooke Copy Share Image
I can use the camera to make a place or landscape; the camera to a greater extent projects rather than takes in… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were… — Siouxsie Sioux Copy Share Image
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
When I am in the city I have the impression that I am in a living room with crystal chandeliers, rugs of… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any… — John Locke Copy Share Image
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