Object Quotes

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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing. — Thomas Carlyle
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The essential difference between that knowledge which is, and that which is not conclusive evidence of Christian character, lies in this: the object of the… — Gardiner Spring
Whatever you might say the object "is", well it is not. — Alfred Korzybski
First of all, let us try to know what love is. If love means to possess someone or something, then that is not real love,… — Sri Chinmoy
The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing.… — Leonardo da Vinci
I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside… — Erich Fromm
Agape's object is always the concrete individual, not some abstraction called humanity. Love of humanity is easy because humanity does not surprise you with inconvenient… — Peter Kreeft
From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea… — Baruch Spinoza
The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency. — Baruch Spinoza
If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he… — Baruch Spinoza
If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it… — Baruch Spinoza
Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever… — Oscar Wilde
Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons. — John Herschel
In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm… — John Ruskin
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by… — Samuel Adams
This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders -… — Abraham Lincoln
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without… — William Carlos Williams

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