Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.
Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.
Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.
Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves.
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.
An object, after all, is what makes infinity private.
To be the object of someone's obsession is horrible.
Does not vanity itself cease to be blamable, is it not even ennobled, when it is directed to laudable objects, when it confines itself to prompting us to great and generous actions?
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
In [Aristotle's] formal logic, thought is organized in a manner very different from that of the Platonic dialogue. In this formal logic, thought is indifferent toward its objects. Whether they are mental or physical, whether they pertain to society or to nature, they become subject to the same general laws of organization, calculation, and conclusion but they do so as fungible signs or symbols, in abstraction from their particular "substance. " This general quality (quantitative quality) is the precondition of law and order in logic as well as in society the price of universal control.
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.