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My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.

The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.

The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments.

I identify myself in language, but only by losing myself in it like an object. What is realised in my history is not the past definite of what was, since it is no more, or even the present perfect of what has been in what I am, but the future anterior of what I shall have been for what I am in the process of becoming.

Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

A shifty, fickle object is woman, always. (Varium et mutabile semper femina.)

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

The conditions of a true critique and a true creation are the same: the destruction of an image of thought which presupposes itself and the genesis of the act of thinking in thought itself. Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter

Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

I must admit that any favorable mention of the flying saucers by a scientist amounts to extreme heresy and places the one making the statement in danger of excommunication by the scientific theocracy. Nevertheless, in recent years I have investigated the story of the unidentified flying object (UFO), and I am no longer able to dismiss the idea lightly.

Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth? And don’t all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don’t they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.

There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

There are people who speculate at objects. I don’t think that makes them evil or not evil. It doesn’t matter; in order to speculate, it has to be made public. Once it’s made public, it’s functioned is art.

If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

A piece of paper or a photograph is as much an object, or as ‘material’ as a ton of lead.