Quotes About Object

Une connaissance qui prendrait pour point de départ l'oppression des femmes constituerait une révolution épistémologique, et non une nouvelle discipline ayant les femmes pour objet ou une explication ad hoc d'une oppression particulière.

Mirënjohja dhe pasioni janë një cift i paqëndrueshëm dhe organi i meshkujve një objekt jo besnik, pa tru dhe i pajetë, i cili nuk na përket neve dhe që ne nuk kemi për ta kuptuar kurrë.

Suryaz and Deme would each need a talisman, an object that smelt lovely, or that felt kind to the hand; such things are little suitcases to put sad feelings in so that they can go away by themselves.

Freedom of the press in Britain is freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertiser's won't object to.

There is no such thing as an indescribable material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes radiative energy. In the process, the energy is conserved, but the structure of the particle-be it Democritus's sphere or a die, be it charged or neutral-vanishes. It dissolves into pure energy. All identity is absorbed in the sea of pure energy.

There is no such thing as an indestructible material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes radiative energy. In the process, the energy is conserved, but the structure of the particle-be it Democritus's sphere or a die, be it charged or neutral-vanishes. It dissolves into pure energy. All identity is absorbed in the sea of pure energy.

Either there is no philosophy possible, and all knowledge of things is a practical knowledge aimed at the profit to be drawn from them, or else philosophy consists in placing oneself within the object itself by an effort of intuition.

Love is greater than faith, because the end is greater than the means. What is the use of having faith? It is to connect the soul with God. And what is the object of connecting man with God? That he may become like God. But God is Love. Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love, the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater than faith. "If I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Ayn Rand defines "value" as "that which one acts to gain and/or keep."3 "Value" denotes the object of an action: it is that which some entity's action is directed to acquiring or preserving

Indifference says you are not a person to love, but an object to use.

I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

In many ways, Trump is both a boon and a bane to Republicans. His insanity and moral decrepitude keep the country focused on things other than the horrible public policies the GOP is attempting to ram through. But because he has no loyalty to anything other than himself, he's much more useful to them as a shiny object than as an ally.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.

We are buying stuff we know we don't need, and that is a problem we should face in design. It starts with creating an object that transports through time a valuable idea: that it can live forever.

It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

In symbolic exchange, of which the gift is our most proximate illustration, the object is not an object: it is inseparable from the concrete relation in which it is exchanged, the transferential pact that it seals between two persons: it is thus not independent as such. It has, properly speaking, neither use value nor (economic) exchange value. The object given has symbolic exchange value.

But the object cannot be allowed to escape from ephemerality or from fashion.

If truth and reality can clearly come only from the subject and his consciousness, then illusion, which is the opposite of these, must necessarily come from elsewhere. From the world of the object, from some other thing than the subject. Illusion, like profusion, comes to us from the world.

In order for ethnology to live, its object must die; by dying, the object takes its revenge for being 'discovered' and with its death defies the science that wants to grasp it.

Adversity no longer exists within the subject, which has become indifferent to misfortune and to itself. Between the object and the subject of vengeance, no demarcation. A single, dual being, and nothing is separate.

The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the Stoic falls far short of his profound indifference to every other object.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures.