Object Quotes

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Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative… — John Diefenbaker
The object of power is power. — George Orwell
It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object. — Paul Valery
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.… — John Dewey
The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious… — Arun Manilal Gandhi
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object… — C.S. Lewis
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its… — Northrop Frye
Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of… — Henry David Thoreau
Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing. — Sanford Meisner
The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to… — Ramana Maharshi
It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of… — R C Sproul
Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for… — Simone Weil
I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it. — Henry David Thoreau
If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it… — Walter Darby Bannard
If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the… — Marva Dawn
We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have… — Judson Cornwall
One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your… — Nirmala Srivastava
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. — Alberto Giacometti
Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact… — Henri Bergson
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment. — Tennessee Williams

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