100,000+ quotes by author,keywords and phrases
Share This Page : 
Follow Us on Twitter
More Quotes By Author
|
|
|
Objects Quotes
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. - Immanuel Kant Quotes
I dont believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything. - Peter Benchley Quotes
Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive. - Marya Mannes Quotes
When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered. - Marguerite Gardiner Quotes
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present. - Marcus Aurelius Quotes
We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. - Denis Diderot Quotes
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. - Levi Strauss Quotes
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance. - Marguerite Gardiner Quotes
But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered. - Barney Frank Quotes
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man cant touch. - E M Forster Quotes
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I dont believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Arts sake. - E M Forster Quotes
Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together. - Robert Musil Quotes
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. - Samuel Johnson Quotes
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense. - Jean Piaget Quotes
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. - Jean Cocteau Quotes
Women have seldom sufficient employment to silence their feelings; a round of little cares, or vain pursuits frittering away all strength of mind and organs, they become naturally only objects of sense. - Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes
The steel workers have now buried their dead, while the widows weep and watch their orphaned children become objects of public charity. The murder of these unarmed men has never been publicly rebuked by any authoritative officer of the state or federal government. - John L Lewis Quotes
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. - Herbert Spencer Quotes
Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities. - Frederick Reines Quotes
Psychologically speaking, to discover something mysterious in objects is a symptom of cerebral abnormality related to certain kinds of insanity. - Giorgio De Chirico Quotes
The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name thats attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. - Stephen Greenblatt Quotes
In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasnt tightly screwed down had slid into Southern California. - Saul Bellow Quotes
The photography of composite colours that exterior objects present posed a harder problem. At first sight it might have been held impossible. - Gabriel Lippmann Quotes
Happiness consists in the gratification of certain affections, appetites, passions, with objects which are by nature adapted to them. - Joseph Butler Quotes
Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. - Giorgio De Chirico Quotes
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire. - Carroll Oconnor Quotes
A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained. - Joseph Story Quotes
We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. - L Neil Smith Quotes
He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest. - Walter Benjamin Quotes
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. - Jean Paul Quotes
Quotes Cloud
According Anything Being Believe Dont Evil Former
Geneticist Good Manages Meant Mother Nobody Object
Objects Only Principle Reason Same Sculptor Those
Time Wife Woman Writer
|
|
|
