T Quotes
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“The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.”
Source: The Tractatus According to Its Own Form
“The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.”
“The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.”
“The object of powder is powder.”
“The object of power is power.”
“The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.”
“The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.”
“The object of pure Mathematic (is) that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.”
“The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.”
“The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.”
“The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences”
Source: Novum Organon Renovatum
“The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else.”
Source: The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To which are Added, Two Brief Dissertations: on Personal Identity, and on the Nature of Virtue; and Fifteen Sermons
“The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other peoples.”
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.”
Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work
“The object of teaching a child is to enable the child to get along without the teacher. We need to educate our children for their future, not our past.”
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
“The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Thrift Study Edition
“The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.”
Source: Experiencing Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study
“The object of the engine is in fact to give the utmost practical efficiency to the resources of numerical interpretations of the higher science of analysis, while it uses the processes and combinations of this latter.”
“The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.”
Source: The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi
“The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book.”
Source: Critical Writings of Ford Madox Ford
“The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.”
“The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.”
“The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.”
“The object of the superior man is truth.”
Source: The Ethics of Confucius
“The object of this book is not to show that Hitler and his confederates were saints or that National Socialism was an ideal or even a desirable form of government. Its aim is a less ambitious one—to demonstrate that the rise of National Socialism was due in the main to the blind and revengeful policy of the Allies; that National Socialism, whatever its defects, saved first Germany and later Spain from becoming bulwarks of Communism; that the Western Powers under Roosevelt’s guidance did everything possible in the pre-War years to drive the German leaders to extremes; that the Roosevelt-Churchill policy of annihilating Germany as a military power served the interests of Communism and of Communism alone; that the “war crimes” were the work of a small band of fanatics; and that the German people as a whole were guilty of nothing more criminal than of defending their country in time of war.”
Source: Hermann Goring and the Third Reich; A Biography Based on Family and Official Records
“The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.”
“The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated. Kids turn up unrehearsed, wearing the wrong clothes, singing out of tune and you can either say, "Good job" and patronize them or tell them the truth, and sometimes the truth is perceived as mean.”
“The object of this edict is to enlighten the present and future citizens of Chandigarh about the basic concepts of planning of the city so that they become its guardians and save it from whims of individuals.”
“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
Source: On Liberty
“The object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy them”
Source: The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings
“The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings”
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
“The object of war is to survive it.”
“The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.”
“The object of your desire is not an object.”
Source: Words Are Not Things
“The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.”
Source: How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo
“The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and its real home is inside the head of the reader, where the symphony resounds, the seed germinates. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.”
“The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose.”
Source: Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works
“The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state.”
Source: The Art Spirit
“The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.”
“The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.”
“The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.”
Source: Minority Report
“The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god.”
Source: St. Francis of Assisi
“The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character.”
“The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.”
“The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.”
Source: Sceptical Essays
“The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.”
Source: A little book in C major
“The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
“The objective for each individual when you are pulled over by an officer of the law is to - Survive the Stop!”