We are all victimized by the natural perversity of inanimate objects. . . and the assorted human beings who perpetuate and maintain this perversity.
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.
We learn that those around us are an extension of ourselves, both animate and inanimate. All things have a life and form. We learn to love them all.
Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.
Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.
What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and see what youre capable of. Your true goal is not to conquer fifty feet of inanimate rock, but to expand your abilities through learning.
If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
most notable distinction between living and inanimate beings is that the former maintain themselves by renewal.
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
We take pleasure in truth and it amazes the eye of the viewer to see in stone, in canvas, or in wood an inanimate thing that seems to move.
Never fight an inanimate object.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.
There are no inanimate objects.
Yet soil is miraculous. It is where the dead are brought back to life. Here, in the thin earthy boundary between inanimate rock and the planet's green carpet, lifeless minerals are weathered from stones or decomposed from organic debris. Plants and microscopic animals eat these dead particles and recast them as living matter. In the soil, matter recrosses the boundary between living and dead; and, as we have seen, boundaries-edges-are where the most interesting and important events occur.
I love the life of objects. When the children go to bed, the objects come to life. I like to tell stories about the life of inanimate objects.
