For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just… — Larry Gagosian Copy Share Image
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and… — Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey 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
I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The common people do not accurately adapt their thoughts to objects; nor, secondly, do they accurately adapt their words to their thoughts;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Fail, it's not in my dictionary. I've got a good dictionary up there and the words 'fail' and 'failure' have been ruled… — Percy Cerutty Copy Share Image
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
In contrast to the knowledge that keeps man in a passive quietude, Desire dis-quiets him and moves him to action. Born of… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or… — Ludwig Boltzmann Copy Share Image
Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think the Harry Potter movies are proof that audiences love that stuff. They love the idea of magical objects and they… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
A Jew is for me an object of disgust. I feel like vomiting when I see one. Christ could not possibly have… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen,… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects,… — John Dykstra Copy Share Image
If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely… — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are… — John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Copy Share Image
Sometime over the past generation we became less likely to object to something because it is immoral and more likely to object… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Since every building and designed object is made of memory, every place can become a memorial for re-membering our lives and the… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit… — Scipio Africanus Copy Share Image
Mix salt and sand, and it shall puzzle the wisest of men, with his mere natural appliances, to separate all the grains… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects;… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections,… — John Eudes Copy Share Image
I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
An echo is a good way to describe the photogram, which is a visual echo of the real object. That's why I… — Adam Fuss Copy Share Image
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
The poetic function is the set towards the message itself, focus on the message for its own sake which by promoting the… — Roman Jakobson 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
