Object Quotes

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Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race. — George Washington
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience… — William Howard Taft
Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these… — William Gilmore Simms
The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of… — Joseph Story
The real object of the First Amendment was not to countenance, much less advance Mohammedanism, or Judaism or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity; but ... to… — Joseph Story
The executive, in our government is not the sole, it is scarcely the principle, object of my jealousy. The tyranny of the legislature is the… — Thomas Jefferson
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is… — Hermann von Helmholtz
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science… — William Bligh
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part… — Stephen King
Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of… — Max Scheler
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object.… — Henry David Thoreau
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other… — Alan Cooper
It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must… — Hannah Whitall Smith
If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. — Andre Breton
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no… — Gerhard Richter
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and… — Emile M. Cioran
Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an… — Esther Hicks
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough… — Matsuo Basho
To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects,… — Colin Gunton

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