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Object Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as…
- All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who…
- The only object of liberty is life.
- The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
- At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- Every one on this earth should believe, amid whatever madness or moral failure, that his life and temperament have some object on the earth. Every…
- The true object of human life is play.
- Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.
- The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and…
- the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
More Object Quotes
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing… — Margaret Atwood
- The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks… — Marcus Aurelius
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage
- A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely… — Honore de Balzac
- The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them. — Charles Barkley
- To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir