Objects Quotes

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I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the… — Werner Heisenberg
We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you. — Daniel Handler
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long,… — Tove Jansson
We all know that a book is not really a person. It isnâ€™t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as… — Margaret Atwood
They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a… — Deb Caletti
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them. — Cassandra Clare
All objects exist in a moment of time. — Amy Tan
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one… — Thomas Merton
...men endeavor to sink us still lower, merely to render us alluring objects for a moment; and women, intoxicated by the adoration which men, under… — Mary Wollstonecraft
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals… — Albert Einstein
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking. — Virginia Woolf
The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it glorifies to the behavior it regulates, stems… — Guy Debord
You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals… — Haruki Murakami
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The… — Albert Camus
Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a… — Charlotte Bronte
There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will… — George Eliot
Sometimes we just walk into something that is not for us at all. We pretend it is. We think we can shrug it off like… — Colum McCann
I happen to think weâ€™ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself… — W. Somerset Maugham

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