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Object Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually…
- Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, -…
- Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
- At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
- Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
- Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...…
- Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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
- Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
- We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting… — Arnold Bennett
- Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order… — Annie Besant
- Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by… — Annie Besant