Object Quotes

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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no object on earth which cannot be looked at from a cosmic point of view. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All the worth which the human being possesses, all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State. . . For Truth is the unity of… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms? — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can… — Aristotle
Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you. — Pepe
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains… — William Shakespeare
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure… — Mark Twain
If, in my retirement to the humble station of a private citizen, I am accompanied with the esteem and approbation of my fellow citizens, trophies… — Thomas Jefferson
The customer is an object to be manipulated, not a concrete person whose aims the businessman is interested to satisfy. — Erich Fromm
Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something… — Daniel J. Boorstin
War should be undertaken in such a way as to show that its only object is peace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to… — Andre Malraux
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And… — Matsuo Basho
I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of… — Juliana Hatfield
The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be… — Gary Saul Morson

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