Object Quotes

The object of education is to prepare the young
to educate themselves throughout their lives.
- Robert M. Hutchins

The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson

Not every difficult and dangerous thing
is suitable for training,
but only that which is conducive to success
in achieving the object of our effort.
- Epictetus

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next
to a God made object like a tree or flower.
If it clashes, it is not art.
- Paul Cezanne

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and
unchangeable color to every object;
beware of this stumbling block.
- Paul Gauguin

The object of war is not to die for your country but
to make the other bastard die for his.
- George S. Patton

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

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

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the
laws of physics and chemistry.
- Michael Polanyi

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect
is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with
the behavior of some heavy,
macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.
- Murray Gell-Mann

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

To be honest, I really don't like being the sex object.
- Izabella Scorupco

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated
as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.
- Warren Farrell

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.
- Fernand Leger

A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
- Richard Schickel

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

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind,
of whatever kind they may be.
- Franz Boas

It has never been my object to record my dreams,
just the determination to realize them.
- Man Ray

I object to a legal approach when settling questions
of science or scientific behavior.
- Serge Lang

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.
- Frederick W. Taylor

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.
- Jean Piaget

Not a single piece of material culture -
not a single object -
has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come
from a lost civilization.
- Zahi Hawass

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
- Karl Marx

Something similar is still true of the courses followed
by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity
of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.
- Edmund Husserl

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority,
and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good,
just, and honest.
- John Winthrop

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.
- Jerzy Kosinski

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object
to reinforce proper administration ethics.
- Simon Travaglia

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking
a question he cannot answer,
and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night,
we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one
who will laugh at the professor.
- Stephen Leacock

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian
is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation,
the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
- Juan Goytisolo

The true object of all human life is play.
Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

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.
- Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
- Samuel Alexander

The object of government in peace and in war is not
the glory of rulers or of races,
but the happiness of common man.
- William Beveridge

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken
the spring of life in me...
People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
- Edouard Manet

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.
- Gerrit Smith

Painting from nature is not copying the object;
it is realizing one's sensations.
- Paul Cezanne

Chess is a sport.
The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.
- Max Euwe

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable
force to an immovable object.
- Laurence J. Peter

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.
- Edward Zwick

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.
- Minor White

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship.
With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
- Christian Nestell Bovee

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the
object of which it is the perception.
- Samuel Alexander

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to
choose some one important object,
and pursue it for life.
- Anna Letitia Barbauld

I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
- Erno Rubik

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the
quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
- Baruch Spinoza

I will far rather see the race of man extinct
than that we should become less than beasts
by making the noblest of God's creation,
woman, the object of our lust.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man...
not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
- Jean Genet

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.
- Peter Cooper

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object,
a purpose.
It is simply the engine in the car -
it can't steer.
- Joyce Cary

Painting is the aesthetic side of the object but it has never been original,
has never been its own goal.
- Kazimir Malevich

For me an object is something living.
This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret
life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
- Joan Miro

Truth, like light, blinds.
Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight
that enhances every object.
- Albert Camus

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.
- George Meredith

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
- Pierre de Coubertin

Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
- Georges Braque

For psychological purposes the most important differences
in conation are those in virtue of which the object
is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.
- Samuel Alexander

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
- Charles Barkley

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man,
however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him,
split as it is in its submission to symbols.
- Jacques Lacan

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?
- Blaise Pascal

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
- John Churton Collins

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
- Margaret Fuller

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.
- John Constable

Desire creates its own object.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

With pop stars or film stars, we become the object
of people's self-definition,
as well as the object of sexual definition.
- George Michael

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object,
I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding
a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
- Eugenio Montale

When we did the sign outside, we did not do the cigarette
or the mug of beer because it was going to be outside.
I wasn't sure if the city would object.
- John Gates

The object of war is victory; that of victory is conquest;
and that of conquest preservation.
- Charles de Secondat

What I object to the current government intervention
in so-called 'solving the crisis',
they haven't solved anything.
They've just postponed it.
- Marc Faber

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