Objects Quotes

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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of… — Thomas Jefferson
Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of… — Max Scheler
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed… — Rumi
Exorcists always need to distinguish demonic possessions from mental or psychiatric disorders, and they use three symptoms to identify people as possessed. First, those people… — Gerard Verschuuren
In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The… — Robert M. Pirsig
The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly… — Russell Kirk
The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in… — Walter Benjamin
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the… — Edgar Allan Poe
It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for… — George Washington
Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one… — George Bernard Shaw
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. — Claude Levi-Strauss
Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are… — Dominique de Menil
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image… — Leonardo da Vinci
The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been… — Thomas Paine
I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of… — Max Beckmann
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by… — Frederick William Faber
When the child goes out, it is the world itself that offers itself to him. Let us take the child out to show him real… — Maria Montessori

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