Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'. — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious… — James Nasmyth Copy Share Image
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with… — Gardiner Spring Copy Share Image
The object . . . is to discover methods of condensing information concerning large groups of allied facts into brief and compendious… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
I don't know anything about making movies. I'd never been on a film set. I'm really kind of an idiot when it… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit with the impact of hallucination. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I never strike out at any life form. The only things I attack are icons of conspicuous consumption. People put objects in… — Wendy O. Williams Copy Share Image
I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Dinosaurs are the jumper cables to the human mind. Kids can't curb their enthusiasm when they're in a hall of dinosaurs and… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
In real life, women dont enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles. — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The most numerous objects of legislation belong to the States. Those of the National Legislature [are] but few. — Rufus King Copy Share Image
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Objects are relatively stupid. They do a few things well, as do lobsters.” — Leland Wilkinson Copy Share Image
When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly,… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material.… — Keith Murray Copy Share Image
A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image