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Quotes About Object

At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
~ Edmund Husserl
Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
~ Edmund Husserl
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
~ Harriet Martineau
Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.
~ J. I. Packer
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
~ Martin Buber
The exact orbit of Earth is controlled by the Sun's mass and the mass of all remaining planets. An object's mass and its distance is all we need to know to completely determine the effects of its gravity on Earth.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form, no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing..
~ Nicholas Sparks
Life is all a dream,' said Bryant, smiling gently. 'A wonderful, wonderful dream. The object is to make everyone else who shares it with you as happy as possible.
~ Christopher Fowler
How much vanity must be concealed-not too effectively at that- in order to pretend that one is the personal object of a divine plan?
~ Christopher Hitchens
Well, I think you'll find that the soft ones object to being cheated even more than the others. They mind it more because they feel that they've only themselves to blame.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
~ Umberto Eco
315Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.
~ Umberto Eco
Cartea a dovedit ce poate, È™i nu vedem un alt obiect mai bun pe care l-am putea crea pentru aceeaÈ™i întrebuinÈ›are.
~ Umberto Eco
I concluded that although instruments, whether empirical or conjectural, exist to prove that some object is false, every decision in the matter presupposes the existence of an original, authentic and true, to which the fake is compared. The truly genuine problem thus does not consist of proving something false but in proving that the authentic object is authentic.
~ Umberto Eco
A thesis studies an object by making use of specific instruments. Often the object is a book and the instruments are other books.
~ Umberto Eco
The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.
~ Victor Hugo
The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.
~ Victor Hugo
The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .
~ Victor Hugo
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
~ la rochefoucauld ix
Jem: Come in. Jace: Where's Brother Zachariah? Jem: I'm right here. Jace Herondale. And once more a Herondale is the object of my deliverance. I should have anticipated.
~ Cassandra Clare
The stereotype is the Eternal Feminine. She is the Sexual Object sought by all men, and by all woman. She is of neither sex, for she has herself no sex at all. Her value is solely attested by the demand she excites in others.
~ Germaine Greer
Gender is the remaining caste system that still cuts deep enough, and spreads wide enough, to be confused with the laws of nature. To uncover the difference between what is and what could be, we may need the "Aha!" that comes from exchanging subject for object, the flash of recognition that starts with a smile, the moment of changed viewpoint that turns the world upside down.
~ Gloria Steinem
Unlike the traditional paradigm of warfare, in which the military object is the destruction of enemy battalions, divisions, and corps, in the paradigm of irregular warfare the security objective is the population itself.
~ Gordon Chang
And I call to mankind, Be not curious about God, For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God, No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God, and about death. I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least...
~ Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass