Quotes About Object

First, I look at history the way I look at evolution. Some things die out for a good reason, and should be left dead. I put dictatorships and velociraptors in the same category: leave them in the past, where they can serve as frightening object lessons for the present.

A line is a method of expressing the effect of light upon an object; but there are no lines in Nature, everything is solid. We draw by modeling, that is to say, that we disengage an object from its setting; the distribution of the light alone gives to a body the appearance by which we know it.

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

Admiral Spartan thinks that the object must be exposed and penetrated with all possible speed.

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time.

My design always has a political agenda. When I borrow components from various cultures and juxtapose them in an object, it is a message that co-existence is indeed possible. Design creates an ideal world where different ideas live close to each other in perfect harmony.

In the second place, this is the only theory that endows man with any dignity, and the only one that does not turn him into an object.

Aquel que quiere ser amado, debe querer la libertad del otro, porque de ella emerge el amor, si lo someto, se vuelve objeto, y de un objeto no puedo recibir amor

Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

'Mary Poppins,' the movie, was an object of mockery if you were a student in the '60s, something to be laughed at.

On one hand, to be able to go from one direction in the sky to study such an object to another direction to study another object, and on the other hand to be able to maintain accurately the position in space.

The three volumes on infancy focus on different aspects of infants' cognitive development. Whereas OI examines the coordination and differentiation of sensorimotor schemes of practical intelligence, CR studies how practical intelligence constructs the concepts of object, space, causality, and time. PDI, in turn, is mainly devoted to the emergence of symbols in the context of the development of imitation and play.

To my way of thinking, knowing an object does not mean copying it – it means acting upon it" (Piaget, 1970, p. 15; cf. Piaget & Inhelder, 1966/1971, pp. 385–386).

Through the application of morphisms, objects are said to be enformed: "the active imposition of a form on an object by the knowing subject. In a derived sense, the same word designates…the fact that some knowledge content is subsumed under a well-defined form" (Piaget et al., 1990/1992, p.

They craned their heads like schoolboys to gaze at the malachite green fountain pen from London. It was an object well worth the attention of these five adult businessmen for three minutes.

The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore, the object must be eliminated from the picture.

An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.

No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.

It is one of the attributes of capitalist enterprise that an object is no longer significant for its essence but for its exchange value.

The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.

within him an actual hatred once more manifested itself toward his electric sheep, which he had to tend, had to care about, as if it lived. The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.