Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, delights,… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The ultimate test of my understanding of the scriptural teaching is the amount of time I spend in prayer. As theology is… — Martyn Copy Share Image
When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
Did you ever hear of a man who had striven all his life faithfully and singly towards an object, and in no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The one object of fifty years of abstract art is to present art-as-art and as nothing else, to make it into the… — Ad Reinhardt Copy Share Image
Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
My work comes out of a deep psychological place, so it's not like I'm Object Man at home. Theoretically, I'm not against… — Tino Sehgal Copy Share Image
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The delights of lust terminate in languishment and dejection; the object thou burnest for nauseates with satiety, and no sooner hadst thou… — Robert Dodsley Copy Share Image
The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In Nature everything has a meaning; that is, every object is exactly adapted to the place it occupies, and to the purpose… — Solomon Caesar Malan Copy Share Image
The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was… — Olaudah Equiano Copy Share Image
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to… — George Sarton 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
Theodosius was chaste and temperate; he enjoyed, without excess, the sensual and social pleasures of the table, and the warmth of his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In accordance to the principles of doublethink, it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Ever since I began working with toys, I have been intrigued with the idea that these seemingly benign objects could take on… — David Levinthal Copy Share Image
Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, no one objects to the husband being the head of the wife as Christ was the head of the church--to crucify… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the… — Beilby Porteus Copy Share Image
I'd like to see the government back a programme of research into the medical properties of cannabis and I do not object… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I dated around some, but I've always been a serial monogamist. I don't know how people date around a lot, and not… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
