Object Quotes

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Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate.… — Matthieu Ricard
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe… — Samuel Alexander
I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a… — George Cayley
Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. — Ashleigh Brilliant
The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object… — Basil W. Maturin
I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object. — Clive Anderson
What do we mean by the defeat of the enemy? Simply the destruction of his forces, whether by death, injury, or any other means-either completely… — Carl von Clausewitz
Whenever armed forces . . . are used, the idea of combat must be present. . . . The end for which a soldier is… — Carl von Clausewitz
The object of defense is preservation; and since it is easier to hold ground than to take it, defense is easier than attack. But defense… — Carl von Clausewitz
I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myÂself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to effect with magick,… — Lon Milo DuQuette
The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies… — M.C. Escher
Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the… — Franz Grillparzer
The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
The daemonic-divine object may appear to the mind an object of horror and dread, but at the same time it is no less something that… — Rudolf Otto
To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate. — Robert Owen
Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay… — Carl Andre
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. — Paul Ricoeur
It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow… — Eric Hobsbawm
Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power… — A J P Taylor
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. — Willard Van Orman Quine

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