Object Quotes

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When it is said that an object occupies a large space in the soul or even that it fills it entirely, we ought to understand… — Henri Bergson
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of… — Edmund Husserl
The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life… — Vissarion Belinsky
In the consciousness of the infinite, the conscious subject has for his object the infinity of his own nature. — Ludwig Feuerbach
Dominique Strauss-Kahn has always had a reputation as a man who cares for women, and even a libertine . . .Â There is a vast… — Elisabeth Guigou
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up… — Lynda Carter
It's horrible to be a sex object at any age, but at least when you're an adult you can make the decision if you want… — Natalie Portman
To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object. — Izabella Scorupco
Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved...… — Emmanuel Levinas
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle… — Fernand Leger
Rather, the master question from which the mission of education research is derived: What should be taught to whom, and with what pedagogical object in… — Jerome Bruner
I'm never drawing the object itself; I'm only drawing a depiction of the object - a kind of crystallized symbol of it. — Roy Lichtenstein
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it. — Ann Radcliffe
Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have… — Janine Antoni
The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is… — John Pawson
Any photograph has multiple meanings: indeed, to see something in the form of a photograph is to encounter a potential object of fascination. The ultimate… — Susan Sontag
In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understandingâ€”in… — Mikhail Bakhtin
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently… — Florence Nightingale
Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst,… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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