Quotes about Objects

24 quotes about Objects

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about objects

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please...

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Quote by Francis Bacon about objects

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into...

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Quote by Russell Baker about objects

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major...

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Quote by Russell Baker about objects

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and...

The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.

Quote by Russell Baker about objects

As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about objects

What interested me was looping the events in such a way...

What interested me was looping the events in such a way that each time they reappeared, they created new musical objects. The idea of tautology.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about objects

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure,...

Quote by Samuel Johnson about objects

Odd objects attract fire - never lurk behind one.

Odd objects attract fire - never lurk behind one.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about objects

By making expensive modifications you increase the...

By making expensive modifications you increase the gravitational attractions between your car and large objects.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about objects

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have...

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once.

Quote by Camille Paglia about objects

Beauty is our weapon against nature, by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Quote by Camille Paglia about objects

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to...

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love, so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about objects

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Quote by Walter Pater about objects

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.

Quote by Walter Pater about objects

What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

Quote by Walter Pater about objects

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Quote by Lester B. Pearson about objects

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

Quote by Erich Fromm about objects

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence...

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Quote by Levi Strauss about objects

Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating...

Quote by Hector Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac about objects

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