Objects Quotes

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. — Tryon Edwards
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. — Joseph Butler
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected situations.… — Alexander Rodchenko
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
History produces not only the forces of domination but also the forces of resistance that press up against and are often the objects of such… — Elizabeth Grosz
Electronic culture created soulless replacements for connective rituals- television supplanted tribal legends told by the fire; 'fast food' consumed in distraction took the place of… — Daniel Pinchbeck
The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds. — Charles Spurgeon
Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary… — Arthur Schopenhauer
What is a good definition? For the philosopher or the scientist, it is a definition which applies to all the objects to be defined, and… — Henri Poincare
It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan. — Giorgetto Giugiaro
The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense. — Alexander Hamilton
This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are… — William Shakespeare
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing… — Samuel Johnson
For sorrow there is no remedy provided by nature; it is often occasioned by accidents irreparable, and dwells upon objects that have lost or changed… — Samuel Johnson
When we talk about 'reproductive rights' this is what we mean. It's the difference between people as objects, and people as agents: between regarding people… — Nafis Sadik
From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a… — Jules Verne
If they are not an advanced race from the future, are we dealing instead with a parallel universe, another dimension where there are other human… — Jacques Vallee
There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments… — Mary Leakey
It is most true, that Truth is a Divine attribute and the foundation of every virtue. To be true, and to seek to find and… — Albert Pike

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