Object Quotes

The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

It has been one of my difficulties, in arguing this question out of doors with friends or strangers, that I rarely find any intelligible agreement as to the object of the war.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The great object is that every man be armed.

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

The message here is you cannot, under any circumstances, throw an object at an official. You just cannot do it.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

I have entered the field to die, if need be, for this government, and never expect to return to peaceful pursuits until the object of this war of preservation has become a fact established.