Quotes About Object

The commodity is, first of all, an external object, a thing which through its qualities satisfies human needs of whatever kind.

A commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort or another.

The main defect of all hitherto-existing materialism — that of Feuerbach included — is that the Object [der Gegenstand], actuality, sensuousness, are conceived only in the form of the object [Objekts], or of contemplation [Anschauung], but not as human sensuous activity, practice [Praxis], not subjectively.

There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or more exclusively or anxiously devoted to the object committed to them.

Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

No sane man objects to palpable lies about him; what he objects to is damaging facts.

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I like that.

Whatsoever is the object of any man's Appetite or Desire; that is it which he for his part calleth Good: and the object of his Hate and Aversion, evil.

To enable men to exercise that power is the object of protection.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

When we recognize that the seemingly object nature of reality is nothing different than the subject nature of mind, which is rigpa, it is called enlightenment.

Never throw off the best affections of nature in the moment when they become most precious to their object; nor fear to extend you hand to save another, lest you should sink yourself.

Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.

Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color.

If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.

When you perceive through your senses, the object may be, of the outside world, but you see the object, inside of you, in your awareness field.

Poetry's object is truth.

Why do comparisons of words and tone poems (poetry and music) never take into consideration that the word is a mere signifier, but that the sound, aside from being a signifier, is also an object?

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

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

Hate is like acid. It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.