Object Quotes

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God is a reality of spirit He cannot be conceived as an object, not even as the very highest object. God is not to be… — Nikolai Berdyaev
Shrewd and crafty politicians, when they wish to bring about an unpopular measure, must not go straight forward to work, if they do they will… — Charles Caleb Colton
Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of… — Thomas Jefferson
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for .… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Those who knew Benjamin Franklin will recollect that his mind was forever young, his temper ever serene; science, that never grows gray, was always his… — Thomas Paine
For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to… — John Seely Brown
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of… — Terence Conran
....all the things and events we usually consider as irreconcilable, such as cause and effect, past and future, subject and object, are actually just like… — Ken Wilber
There is a conception in this country about luxurious things that we have to save them for a time that's right. But an object is… — Ralph Rucci
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the… — Plato
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,… — George Sarton
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense… — Albert Einstein
In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to… — Jean-Georges Noverre
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again,… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested… — Joseph Butler
OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes.… — Craig Johnston
We are going to scourge the Third Reich from end to end. We are bombing Germany city by city and ever more terribly in order… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on… — Debra Winger

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