Quotes About Objects

Habitually, as we anxiously flee from the responsibility of our existence as a whole, we place our hope in the particular objects and situations of the world. This, however, fails to provide us with a secure refuge and our initial anxiety asserts itself again.

Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although our scope of involvement may extend to numerous and diverse fields of interest and concern, as long as the notion of having predominates, our being remains empty and superficial.

Thus my friend," Lewis concluded, "you have a summary view of the plan, the means and the objects of this expedition. If therefore there is anything under those circumstances, in this enterprise, which would induce you to participate with me in it's fatiegues, it's dangers and it's honors, believe me there is no man on earth with whom I should feel equal pleasuure in sharing them as with yourself.

People, as curious primates, dote on concrete objects that can be seen and fondled. God dwells among the details, not in the realm of pure generality. We must tackle and grasp the larger, encompassing themes of our universe, but we make our best approach through small curiosities that rivet our attention - all those pretty pebbles on the shoreline of knowledge. For the ocean of truth washes over the pebbles with every wave, and they rattle and clink with the most wondrous din.

Telekinesis is the ability to move objects or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind.

there will always be books. ... Books are real objects . Books are friends . ... They're also ideas and emotions.

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing.

Love is the experience that others are not others. Beauty is the experience that objects are not objects.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Life appears to have one foot in the classical world of everyday objects and the other planted in the strange and peculiar depths of the quantum world. Life, we will argue, lives on the quantum edge.

Ah, you realists! I am not ashamed of my romanticism. Ah, you, abstractionists: I will confess to you my passion for objects, earth, nature. Should I pretend I am a stone when emotions, memories surge and overflow me, and I am dreaming of home, and melting snow?

Several of the peculiarities of WEIRD culture can be captured in this simple generalization: The WEIRDer you are, the more you see a world full of separate objects, rather than relationships.

The fact that variables have types and cannot simply hold any kind of object is another important feature of the language that ensures safety and correctness of code.

The belief that freedom is an all-or-nothing phenomenon – that we have it either all the time or none of the time – blinds us to the fact that there are degrees of freedom. It can be won and lost, and its loss is gradual. Unless the will is constantly exercised, it atrophies and dies. We then become objects, not subjects, swept along by tides of fashion, or the caprice of desire, or the passion that becomes an obsession.

But, while bidirectional associations between ENTITIES may be hard to maintain, bidirectional associations between two VALUE OBJECTS just make no sense. Without identity, it is meaningless to say that an object points back to the same VALUE OBJECT that points to it. The most you could say is that it points to an object that is equal to the one pointing to it, but you would have to enforce that invariant somewhere.

An AGGREGATE is a cluster of associated objects that we treat as a unit for the purpose of data changes.

Complex object creation is a responsibility of the domain layer, yet that task does not belong to the objects that express the model.

Two objects are equal only if the variables containing the object references point to the same object.

The hasOwnProperty method returns true if a property is defined in an object instance. If it's not, but you can access that property, then you can assume the property must be defined in the object's prototype.

JavaScript doesn't have a classical object-oriented model, where you create objects from classes. In fact, JavaScript doesn't have classes at all. In JavaScript, objects inherit behavior from other objects, which we call prototypal inheritance, or inheritance based on prototypes.

when you send an object the worker gets a copy of it. Any changes the worker makes will not affect the object in your main page. The worker is executing in a different environment than your main page, so you have no access to objects there. The same is true of objects the worker sends you: you get a copy of them.

Here's the short story: functions are objects in JavaScript. In

in JavaScript just about everything is an object underneath, even

methods in objects are properties too. They just happen to have a function assigned to them.