Objects Quotes

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The objects that we have known in better days are the main props that sustain the weight of our affections, and give us strength to… — William Hazlitt
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then… — Ludwig Boltzmann
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time… — John Ruskin
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker… — Ivan Pavlov
I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary. — Michael Craig-Martin
If you are collector, let other people share your pride and joy. Don't sprinkle your collection out of sight in a meaningless jumble. Notice how… — Dorothy Draper
Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their… — Alexander Stepanov
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated… — Willard Van Orman Quine
After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery… — John T. Schuessler
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of… — Robert Musil
To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they… — Ruskin Bond
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed. — Dalai Lama
The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the… — Marshall McLuhan
A vast sector of modern advertising... does not appeal to reason but to emotion; like any other kind of hypnoid suggestion, it tries to impress… — Erich Fromm
Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form… — Terence McKenna
Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing. — Van Day Truex
If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless… — Scott Fahlman
That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one. — Jonathan Ive

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