Object Quotes

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The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man… — Paul Valery
People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself… — William Hazlitt
Those who object to wit are envious of it. — William Hazlitt
No better love than love with no object — Rumi
Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then… — Martin Luther
When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a button they can… — Craig Stone
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed. — Karl Marx
The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object. — Karl Marx
Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as… — Karl Marx
The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty. — Karl Marx
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as… — Karl Marx
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation… — John Quincy Adams
As soon as slavery fired upon the flag it was felt, we all felt, even those who did not object to slaves, that slavery must… — Ulysses S. Grant
When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look… — Jeff VanderMeer
I have come to understand myself as more of a New York writer, or more of a woman writer, but I don't feel like that… — Sloane Crosley
To me, hip-hop's been dead for years. We all should know that. With that being said, then, the object of the game now is to… — Nas
Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the… — Thomas Frank
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. — Lucian Freud

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