Object Quotes

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Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants… — Betty Rollin
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I… — Jerzy Kosinski
To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked… — John Berger
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become... — Robert Thurman
The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities. — Jordan Peterson
Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain… — Robert Thurman
One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of… — Dalai Lama
We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal… — Pierre-Paul Grasse
There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing… — Muhammad
I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the… — Tim Soutphommasane
Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon. — Austin O'Malley
He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire. — Ignatius of Antioch
No earthly pleasures, no kingdoms of this world can benefit me in any way. I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest… — Ignatius of Antioch
Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not… — Bernard Haisch
Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the… — Ashley Bickerton
Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its… — Stephen Mitchell
Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. — Plato
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. — Adrian Forty
Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every… — Oscar Wilde

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