Object Quotes

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The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently… — Franz Joseph Gall
The peculiar fascination of the brain lies in the fact that there is probably no other object of scientific enquiry about which we know at… — Gerd Sommerhoff
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary… — John Dalton
Happiness is the object and design of our existence. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object-Man and… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others. — Karl G. Maeser
Love is not 'blind' but visionary: It sees into the very heart of its object And sees the 'real self' behind and in the midst… — Andras Angyal
True love has no object. It is a state of being. — John McAfee
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality, suppose an overturning… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The idea of making a fault a subject of study and not an object to be merely determined has been the most important step in… — Marcel Alexandre Bertrand
Nature is the system of laws established by the Creator for the existence of things and for the succession of creatures. Nature is not a… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He… — Alphonsus Liguori
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and… — John Winthrop
More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making. — Jim Dine
I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears;… — George III
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one bound… — Thomas George Bonney
The phosphorous smell which is developed when electricity (to speak the profane language) is passing from the points of a conductor into air, or when… — Christian Friedrich Schonbein
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective… — John Constable
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform… — Alan Bullock
We distinguish integrity as a phenomenon of the objective state or condition of an object, system, person, group, or organizational entity, and define integrity as:… — Werner Erhard

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