An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.(A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.)

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

What I object to the current government intervention in so-called ‘solving the crisis’, they haven’t solved anything. They’ve just postponed it.

We commonly speak as though a single ‘thing’ could ‘have’ some characteristic. A stone, we say, is ‘hard,’ ‘small,’ ‘heavy,’ ‘yellow,’ ‘dense,’ etc. That is how our language is made: ‘The stone is hard.’ And so on. And that way of talking is good enough for the marketplace: ‘That is a new brand.’ ‘The potatoes...

I object to that object that’s made of bronze and shaped like my clone. It should be made of gold, and shaped like me.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

The quality of beauty lies on how beholder values an object.

The least touchable object in the world is the eye.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within...

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Desire is when you work hard to achieve something. For an achievable object, its more about making a sudden decision.

And sometimes I’m criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is...

If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at least should have, distinct personal ends.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

I’ve always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

People who are pierced should not be snickered at, should not become the object of ridicule, should not be singled out for special and uneven and unequal treatment. They should be respected just like everybody else.

In the same way that a mundane object can have a personality somehow, I try to suggest that a mundane setting can have some menace behind it.

When does an object become a symbol? All I know is you cannot force it.

I possess an object that reminds me of your stepdad’s bowel movements. It’s brown and squishy and smells like yesterday.

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes it. It also paints men, it aggrandizes them, it exaggerates them, it creates heroes and gods. History only depicts man,...

To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object...

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

You might never comprehend my madness. But it stands behind my undying love for you. You’re the object of my everything. I’m sorry I’ve been stupid lately.

Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

It’s inimical to be critical without being constructive

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can’t be. It can only be a channel.

I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

With sculpting, nothing is cloudy or mystical. It’s just about this object, and if you’re trying to depict reality, and you do it well, then the outcome is the truth.