Object Quotes

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.

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

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.

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.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love.

The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.