Object Quotes

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In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our… — Jean Klein
One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife,… — Rajneesh
Drop the mind and the divine. God is not an object, it is a merger. The mind resists a merger, the mind is against surrender;… — Rajneesh
Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so. — Arthur Schopenhauer
He that would travel for the entertainment of others, should remember that the great object of remark is human life. Every nation has something peculiar… — Samuel Johnson
The object and practice of liberty lies in the limitation of government power. — Douglas MacArthur
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And… — C.S. Lewis
There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained… — Thomas Paine
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and… — Joseph Addison
The yoga we practice is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in… — Sri Aurobindo
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps… — Rumi
We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists… — Frederic Bastiat
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object… — Frederic Bastiat
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many… — Henry David Thoreau
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt… — Edmund Burke
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
The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren
You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed. — Abraham Lincoln

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