Object Quotes

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

There is something I feel when I animate something; you can never really understand the character you're animating unless you've had the opportunity to turn it around. Once you've done that, you know it is a three-dimensional object.

It's a little bit late in the day for men to object that women are getting outside their proper sphere.

Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make.

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

The object of golf is not just to win. It is to play like a gentleman, and win.

No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.

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.

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.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

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.

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.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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.