Objects Quotes
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine -
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
Edgar Allan Poe
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“The only value objects have is what people are willing to pay to own them.”
Vicki Delany -
No great thought, no great object, satisfies the mind at first view, nor at the last.
Abel Stevens -
I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.
Michael Hansmeyer -
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William Ellery Channing -
I think women have always been considered objects, especially in the genre of westerns.
Sergio Leone -
Objects too at times, after all, like the landscape, held the potential for meaning- she took out the first object now- and were able to comfort.
Amanda Coplin
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A signal is comprehended if it serves to make us notice the object or situation it bespeaks. A symbol is understood when we conceive the idea it presents.
Susanne Langer -
The sabbath is God's special present to the working man, and one of its chief objects is to prolong his life, and preserve efficient his working tone. The savings bank of human existence is the weekly sabbath.
William Blaikie -
Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.
Gary A. Kowalski -
When scandals proliferate, human beings become so obsessed with their rivals that they lose sight of the objects for which they compete and begin to focus angrily on one another.
Rene Girard -
The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.
Blaise Pascal -
Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.
Nick Szabo
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"Is Art worth dying for?" Well I don't know a single inanimate object that's worth dying for.
George Clooney -
A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady
Ettore Sottsass -
It is impossible to unite Christ and Baal -- their spirits cannot unite, their objects and purposes are entirely different; the one leads to eternal life and exaltation, the other to death and final destruction.
Brigham Young -
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan Kundera -
It turns out, Newton is correct: Objects at rest tend to remain at rest, and twelve-year-old-boys are even more resistant to motion than regular matter.
Courtney Milan -
When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.
Darren McCarty
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The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
William James -
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
Rowan Williams -
To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
Milarepa -
I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects, fh) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life.
Jean Dubuffet