Quotes About Object

Evolution] is reminiscent of the way that the temperatures of a hot object and a cold object placed in contact with each another approach thermal equilibrium, in conformity with the second law of thermodynamics.

As C. S. Lewis said in a famous lecture, next to the sacrament itself your Christian neighbor is the holiest object ever presented to your sight, because in him or her the living Christ is truly present.3

The aim, as in all theological and biblical exploration, is not to replace love with knowledge. Rather, it is to keep love focused upon its true object.

There have always been haters, Stewart. Hate Jews, hate Blacks, hate immigrants, hate Yagaiists who have more initiative and dignity than you do. I'm just the latest object of hatred. It's not new, it's not remarkable. It doesn't mean any basic kind of schism between the Sleepless and Sleepers.

'Twas my object to carry terror and destruction wherever we went.

described as indexical. What he meant was an image made by the physical being of the object, not a line drawing.

A literal is syntax that allows you to define a reference value without explicitly creating an object, using the new operator and the object's constructor.

That he produced the quintessential Bauhaus object is evidence that the ideals of the school were as they purported to be—capable of transcending all that was European, going beyond what was unique to a single culture, and spreading across the map of the entire world.

in repairing the object you really ended up loving it more, because you now knew its eagerness to be reassembled, and in running a fingertip over its surface you alone could feel its many cracks - a bond stronger than mere possession.

Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul. What draws us away from God is not sensuality but abstraction.

Man has as much of a soul as he believes he has. When that belief dies, man becomes an object.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

Even the rickshaw coolie, given, to be on the safe side, double his normal fee, takes the money in grim silence and immediately looks away. It is most uncomfortable to feel oneself as an object of this universal detestation , a mere foreign-devil in fact.

One anecdote should be recorded. I asked Wittgenstein whether, when he wrote the Tractatus, he had ever decided upon anything as an example of a 'simple object'. His reply was that at that time his thought had been that he was a logician; and that it was not his business, as a logician, to try to decide whether this thing or that was a simple thing or a complex thing, that being a purely empirical matter! It was clear that he regarded his former opinion as absurd.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Nie mo?emy traktowa? czynu kobiety jako w pe?ni ?wiadomego - odezwa? si? znowu Frommer. - Psychologia kobieca udowodni?a, ?e kobieta jest jednocze?nie i podmiotem, i przedmiotem, wi?c jej wybory mog? by? tylko w pewnej cz??ci ?wiadome... (...) Kobiety ze swej natury s? delikatniejsze i bardziej wra?liwe, dlatego tak ?atwo sk?aniaj? si? do czynów nieprzemy?lanych.

I also use women as a sex object maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.

Some people contend that this means the complete integration of subject and object whenever they meet. This interpretation is interesting in content, but it is not necessarily substantiated by anything in the literature of Zen.

As long as we make the Truth and the Absolute our primary objects without transcending the duality of subject and object, we are not said to be in zazen, even if we formally sit in strict conformity to its requirements.

The distinction between samadhi and attachment (following forms) depends on whether we are completely one with objects, liberated from mind and body, or whether we remain even slightly attached to the duality of subject and object.

The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you can cover the pots with it too.

Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life.

The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.