Object Quotes

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The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is… — William Whewell
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. — Sun Tzu
The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more… — Susan Sontag
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of… — Oliver Goldsmith
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love,… — Boris Pasternak
Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such changes… — James Madison
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson
The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good. — Horace Mann
People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically… — L. Neil Smith
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject,… — Rajneesh
Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of frustration, the very… — Rajneesh
The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every… — Rajneesh
Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery. — Florence Nightingale
It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still… — Alexander Hamilton
People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the… — Rajneesh
Let the one great aim and ideal be to lift up and universalize our affection, so that while it is as deep and intimate as… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his… — Alister MacKenzie
Made up of a dozen billion microscopic nerve-cell units interconnected by millions upon millions of conducting nerve-threads weaving incredibly intricate patterns, the brain, as an… — William Feindel

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