Quotes About Objects

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes humans objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created to be sick and commanded to be well.

The basis of bureaucratic rule is the poverty of society in objects of consumption, with the resulting struggle of each against all. When there is enough goods in a store, the purchasers can come whenever they want to. When there is little goods, the purchasers are compelled to stand in line. When the lines are very long, it is necessary to appoint a policeman to keep order. Such is the starting point of the power of the Soviet bureaucracy. It knows who is to get something and who has to wait.

Jesus expressed an earthy, semiotic theology by materializing his message through various media, including images, stories, actions (stilled storms, healed limbs), and objects like spit, fig trees, bursting baskets, etc. He was a master semiotician. You might even say that Jesus' ministry was more a semiotics ministry than a preaching, teaching, or healing ministry.

Mathematics, such as appertain to painting, are necessary to the painter, also the absence of companions who are alien to his studies: his brain must be versatile and susceptible to the variety of objects which it encounters, and free from distracting cares.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

It would be very interesting to design objects for everyday life, something where the ideas that are expressed can be launched into society.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended.

Space-time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe a separate existence, independently of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended. In this way the concept empty space loses its meaning.

The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.

Power and wealth increase in direct proportion to a man's distance from the material objects from which wealth and power are ultimately derived.

We see then that there are in nature certain scenes, certain classes of objects, certain materials, possessed of the power to transport the beholder's mind in the direction of its antipodes, out of the everyday Here and toward the Other World of Vision.

But that was what the world was like; we battered and bashed and poured out clouds of smoke and chemicals and particles of every description to bring forth our little objects of desire, our baubles.

Sé que los objetos mantienen la energía del dolor emocional del dueño, así como de sus creencias respectos a las finanzas. Prefiero pagar el precio máximo de un objeto que tenga el optimismo del dueñode un negocio próspero.

Funny how something that seemed so insignificant, just an old bowl with faded glazed stripes, could trigger so many memories.

Other objects found in shark stomachs include a suit of armor, a barrel of nails, a roll of tar paper, coal, raincoats, shoes, plastic bags, goats, sheep, lizards, snakes, chicken, reindeer, and monkeys.

Un radar fonctionne quand un champ magnétique s'établit entre deux objets. Une force d'attraction, presque : un objet envoie un signal à l'autre, et ce qu'il reçoit en retour est l'"image" du deuxième, non l'objet lui-même.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

I have found in my still-life work that I seem to be able to tell what objects are important to me by what tends to stay in the painting as it develops.

Destiny is not only a dramatist, it is also its own stage manager. That is, it sets the entrances of the characters on scene, gives them letters and other objects, and produces the off-stage noises to go with the dialogue: thunder, a carriage, a shot.