Object Quotes

You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.

The object of the superior man is truth.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

As long as my pictures go into theaters and we ask people to pay to see what I do on the screen, I should not object if customers want to know what kind of man I am.

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life.

The first object of my endeavours was the means to become perfect and happy.

The seed is a household object but at the same time it is a revolutionary symbol.