Object Quotes

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The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject. — Amiri Baraka
It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear. — Maxwell Maltz
We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. — Thomas Carlyle
Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear… — Bernard of Clairvaux
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect. — Averroes
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is… — Thomas Jefferson
The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States. — Alexander Hamilton
At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of… — George Washington
Suspicion is a virtue as long as its object is the public good, and as long as it stays within proper bounds. ... Guard with… — Patrick Henry
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until… — Minor White
I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great, essential right. I… — James Madison
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love. — Henry Fielding
Our whole culture is based on the appetite for buying, on the idea of a mutually favorable exchange. .... For the man an attractive girl… — Erich Fromm
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult. — Erich Fromm
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The… — John Stuart Mill
When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if… — Michael Chekhov
The facts which our senses present to us are socially performed in two ways: through the historical character of the object perceived and through the… — Max Horkheimer
Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it — Karl Marx
There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become… — Michel Foucault

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