Quotes About Object

An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.

Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.

Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in this the spirit of a specifically "modern" conception of the world which permits the subject to assert itself against the object as something independent and equal; whereas classical antiquity did not as yet permit the explicit formulation of this contrast; and whereas the Middle Ages believed the subject as well as the object to be submerged in a higher unity.

We have to entertain the possibility that there is no reason for something existing; or that the split between subject and object is only our name for something equally accidental we call knowledge; or, an even more difficult thought, that while there may be some order to the self and the cosmos, to the microcosm and macrocosm, it is an order that is absolutely indifferent to our existence, and of which we can have only a negative awareness.

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Photographs bear witness to a human choice being exercised in a given situation. A photograph is a result of the photographer's decision that it is worth recording that this particular event or this particular object has been seen. If everything that existed were continually being photographed, every photograph would become meaningless.

But if metaphysics is to proceed by intuition, if intuition has the mobility of duration as its object, and if duration is of a psychical nature, shall we not be confining the philosopher to the exclusive contemplation of himself?

A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it, but he soon feels the weight of any other object. There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that a man cannot forget- but not himself.

Can one ever experience pleasure that is not attached to an object? Pure pleasure? [...] Well, one can say, a piece of music gave you pleasure. or seeing a handsome face, or smelling something delicious. But can pleasure be independent of any influences?

I was a tool. My dear father used me - and Nessarose less so, because of her trouble moving about - he used me as an object lesson. Looking as I did, even singing as I can - they trusted him partly as a response to the freakiness of me. If the Unnamed God could love me, how much more responsible it'd be to the unadulterated them.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.

They change their sky, not their mind, who cross the sea. A busy idleness possesses us: we seek a happy life, with ships and carriages: the object of our search is present with us.

A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to trust savingly in a Divine object.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.

True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

What is the Truth? was askt of yore. Reply all object Truth is one As twain of halves aye makes a whole; the moral Truth for all is none.

The articulation of the other's body in words turns it into a map of possible pleasure, effectively distancing that body by transforming it into an erotic object.

All wishes, however wrongheaded, however great or noble or ephemeral, must have an object, and that object is usually more ideal than real.

He is a creature of will, and the beauty of his will overreaches the tawdriness of his real object: Daisy.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object.

I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object.