Quotes About Objects

Simulations are not illusions. Virtual worlds are real. Virtual objects really exist.

and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.

There is no reason why an extraphysical general principle is necessarily to be avoided, since such principles could conceivably serve as useful working hypotheses. For the history of scientific research is full of examples in which it was very fruitful indeed to assume that certain objects or elements might be real, long before any procedures were known which would permit them to be observed directly.

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Government is essentially immoral. The State employs evil weapons to subjugate evil, and is alike contaminated by the objects with which it deals, and the means by which it works.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

There was Barbra, sitting among all her objects, all of the things she loved best in the world; a tableau of capitalism.

Each human is a heterogeneous compound of vibrant matter. If matter itself is lively, then not only is the difference between subjects and objects minimized, but the status of the shared materiality of all things is elevated. (...) And in a knotted world of vibrant matter, to harm one section of the web may very well be to harm oneself. Such an enlightened or expanded notion of self-interest is good for humans.

Even if complete immutability might not be possible, it's beneficial for regular mutable objects to keep their internal state in immutable data structures, because that allows easier synchronization when the object is modified from multiple thrads or in a reentrant way.

Los eventos no poseen, al igual que el yo y los objetos, una existencia independiente y autónoma sino que son producto de una ideación.

In most ancient cultures, people believed that everything, even so-called inanimate objects, had an indwelling spirit, and in this respect they were closer to the truth than we are today.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world. But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

my boredom might be described as a malady affecting external objects and consisting of a withering process; an almost instantaneous loss of vitality--just as though one saw a flower change in a few seconds from a bud to decay and dust.

In Papal Italy, as travellers universally admit (except where the Gospel has recently entered), all appearance of worshipping the King Eternal and Invisible is almost extinct, while the Mother and the Child are the grand objects of worship