Bill Gaede Quotes
It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Bill Gaede
Quotes to Explore
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
Edmund Husserl
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
Edgard Varese
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All designed tools and objects are sort of extensions of human abilities, and they do tend to make life richer for us. But, an awful lot of designs, especially in this country, make life a lot more inconvenient. I'm thinking, for instance, of high-fidelity units that have so many switches and toggles and buttons and things that they confuse most people.
Victor Papanek
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Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
Andre Bazin
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
Louis Fischer
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I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.
Artie Shaw
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Mysticism, according to its historical and psychological definitions, is the direct intuition or experience of God; and a mystic is a person who has, to a greater or less degree, such a direct experience -- one whose religion and life are centered, not merely on an accepted belief or practice, but on that which the person regards as first hand personal knowledge.
Evelyn Underhill
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Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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Lord, by the words of consecration the substance of the bread and wine is converted into the substance of your Body and Blood. All powerful Lord, say over me the word which will change me into You.
Anthony Mary Claret
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In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.
Bill Gaede