Anything can be art. Art is the relations between relations, not the relations between objects.
If we can find a principle to guide us in the handling of the child between nine and eighteen months, we can see that we need to allow enough opportunity for handling and investigation of objects to further intellectual development and just enough restriction required for family harmony and for the safety of the child.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
I wanted nothing else than to make the object as perfect as possible.
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership.
I often look around me and think about this specific place in time, and what things will endure and become objects of nostalgia for the future. Pokémon? Urban Vinyl figures? Superheroes? Vampires? iPhones? It will be the things that resonate with the collective consciousness of this current time.
But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . . describing a scene will be found to be very small.
Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To own is to have, to have is to hold, and to hold is to show off.
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a. . . cube of crystallized thought.
Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.
To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.
The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.
Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.
The only object of liberty is life.
If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.