Objects Quotes

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Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we… — Hermann Weyl
Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than… — Rene Descartes
Love is the natural condition of all experience before thought has divided it into a multiplicity and diversity of objects, selves and others. — Rupert Spira
An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than… — Freeman Tilden
How could I tell the doctor what was wrong with me? I didn't understand it myself. I couldn't articulate the pain; it was the pain… — Alice Hoffman
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public. — Henry David Thoreau
Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in… — Georges Perec
By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven in our clothing,… — Ray Kurzweil
I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories. — Marc Newson
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of benevolence,… — Walter E. Williams
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these… — Jan Smuts
Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down… — Saint Augustine
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers,… — William Blake
Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse.… — Marcus Aurelius
There are many objects of desire, and therefore many desires. Some are born with us, hunger, yearning, and pride of place, and some are the… — Guy Davenport
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time;… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Our health is our sound relation to external objects; our sympathy with external being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in… — Charles Dickens

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