Quotes About Object

And of course they used her like a disposable object, without regret or apology, because that's what privilege is—the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

Quantum mechanics extends this relativity in a radical way: all variable aspects of an object exist only in relation to other objects. It is only in interactions that nature draws the world.

In quantum mechanics no object has a definite position, except when colliding headlong with something else.

That is, there is no meaning to the velocity of an object by itself: the only velocity that exists is the velocity of an object with respect to another object.

In quantum mechanics no object has a definite position, except when colliding headlong with something else. In order to describe it in mid-flight, between one interaction and another, we use an abstract mathematical formula that has no existence in real space, only in abstract mathematical space.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.

Little tube of mighty pow'r, Charmer of an idle hour, Object of my warm desire.

The thing that excites me, and the thing that excited me about Twitter, is the idea of a flock of birds moving around an object in flight.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

In war the will is directed at an animate object that reacts.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

When we fight wars, money is no object. When we choose peace, we ration every penny.

There are three stages in meditation. The first is what is called Dharana, concentrating the mind upon an object. I try to concentrate my mind upon this glass, excluding every other object from my mind except this glass. But the mind is wavering. When it has become strong and does not waver so much, it is called Dhyana, meditation. And then there is a still higher state when the differentiation between the glass and myself is lost — Samadhi or absorption

When the mind has attained to that state when it identifies itself with the internal impression of the object, leaving the external, and when, by long practice, that is retained by the mind and the mind can get into that state in a moment, that is Samyama.

The principal difference between love and hate is that love is an irradiation, and hate is a concentration. Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred. All the fearful counterfeits of love — possessiveness, lust, vanity, jealousy — are closer to hate: they concentrate on the object, guard it, suck it dry.

i try not to think of myself as a person but a metal object, built suddenly by machines in complete darkness something impossible to hurt with a shovel

I shall be forever grateful to you for breaking whatever unfortunate object you did in order to rescue me." "Something had to be done, she said, "and it was a very ugly vase.

A mind cannot exist independently, without an object. By its very nature, mind is the subject, the agent, the doer. Subject and object are interdependent—without one the other cannot exist. This is why if, through deep meditation, we free our minds from interaction with all external and internal objects, the subjective mind will naturally focus on itself as the object.

As all things are reflections of God, so are all names reflections of the divine name." "And what is an object's true name?" "That name which reflects the divine name in the same manner as the object reflects God." "And what is the action of a true name?" "To endow its object with a reflection of divine power.