Objects Quotes

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

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; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?