Nothing is so dangerous as that of violence employed by well-meaning people for beneficial objects.
Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effects is the whole of your conception of the object.
In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.
What would you do if money was no object?
It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us.
Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed.
As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects.
Capital punishment. . . treats members of the human race. . . as objects to be toyed with and discarded.
Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i. e. , respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves
I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.
In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.
What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?
Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.
Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
No better love than love with no object
The appearances of natural objects are in themselves meaningless; the essential thing is feeling - in itself and completely independent of the context in which it has been evoked.
Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.