Best Objects Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Although the detail of our sexual energies and their objects and objectives vastly vary, the existence of our sexuality itself is an undeniable truth.

It’s not the elements of our worship that are awesome. It’s the object of our worship Who is awesome.

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

There is a primacy of each individual object. And we’ll see! That’s the whole point of making sculpture, to present a question in a physical form to people.

My wife is a sex object – every time I ask for sex, she objects.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I focus on details, either of the body, or of objects that represent gender, sexuality, and other themes.

I was in love. With a two-dimensional object. A mute in love with a painting. Lovely. Just lovely.