Object Quotes

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I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. — David Sedaris
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is… — John Twelve Hawks
Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared… — Laurie R. King
Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance. — Robert M. Pirsig
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning. — Thomas Carlyle
The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty… — C.S. Lewis
The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object… — Jane Austen
To dwell in the here and now does not mean you never think about the past or responsibly plan for the future. The idea is… — Nhat Hanh
I stand four-square for reason, and object to what seems to me to be irrationality, whatever the source. If you are on my side in… — Isaac Asimov
How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We… — Julian Barnes
...The men eyed her with the automatic mix of curiosity, lust, and aesthetic judgment they always gave young women, subject to object, the way you'd… — Janet Fitch
The determination to outwit one's situation means that one has no models, only object lessons. — James A. Baldwin
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably… — Maya Angelou
Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the… — Albert Camus
I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life… — Bertrand Russell
I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion,… — Ann Radcliffe
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did… — William P. Young

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