Object Quotes

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As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of… — Philibert Joseph Roux
Rightly viewed no meanest object is insignificant; all objects are as windows through which the philosophic eye looks into infinitude itself. — Thomas Carlyle
It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object. — Thomas Paine
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired. — George Santayana
The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as… — Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry. — William Hazlitt
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my… — Henry Morton Stanley
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace,… — Matthieu Ricard
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is… — Ben Hecht
What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart. — Swami Vivekananda
It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide the five senses… — Gary Zukav
The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an… — Jean Piaget
Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an object… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Joy needs no object; it is our own nature. — Sathya Sai Baba
Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be… — Thomas Kuhn
Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of… — Charles Babbage
Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can never infer the… — David Hume
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. — George Henry Lewes
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him… — Ramana Maharshi

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