Object Quotes

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The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable. — Robert Henri
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera
Happiness always has an object... Depends on external things. Joy... Has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason, it's like the sun, its… — Susanna Tamaro
A prince must not have any other object nor any other thoughtâ€¦ but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art… — Niccolo Machiavelli
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse… — Rumi
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon — Oscar Wilde
Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who… — Osamu Dazai
Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.… — George Orwell
So I suppose I do not know how he really looked, and, in fact, I suppose I shall never know, now, for he was plainly… — Angela Carter
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the… — Robertson Davies
All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to… — Blaise Pascal
So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about.… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not… — Ayn Rand
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is… — Napoleon Bonaparte
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least. — Walt Whitman
I object to that remark very strongly! - The Magician's Nephew — C.S. Lewis
It is true that the path of human destiny cannot but appal him who surveys a section of it. But he will do well to… — Max Weber
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we… — Fritjof Capra

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