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“Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. ... he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals ... A visual is more interested in style than in content ... A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.”

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry , the only ersatz of God , the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself.”

Objects Beast Imitation Idolatry

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“Strange it is that men should admit the validity of the arguments for free speech but object to their being "pushed to an extreme," not seeing that unless the reasons are good for an extreme case, they are not good for any case.”

Men Should Reason Cases Seeing Objects Strange Speech Argument Extremes Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Validity

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.”

Mind Objects Fixed

Book:Autobiography

Source: Autobiography

“The real evil isn't the objects of technology but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It's the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil.”

People Way Real Evil Attitude Technology Objects Produce Lonely Tendencies Objectivity

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“The Text is not a definitive object.”

Objects

Author:Roland Barthes

“The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.”

Growth Virtue Objects Duty Nine Saving Cake True Religion

Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The Economist

“If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.”

Ifs Firsts Objects Limits Accepted Exploration Futurism

Author:Frank Herbert

“Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.”

Men World Wish Social Ability Objects Eternal Ethics Slave Isolation

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to another reality. On the contrary, the object of dialogical action is to make it possible for the oppressed, by perceiving their adhesion, to opt to transform an unjust reality." "In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to the world of oppression; the unity which links them to each other must be of a different nature.”

World Firsts Different Reality Action Order Cutting Magic Objects Unity Myth Contrary Oppression Links Oppressed Unjust Cords Umbilical Cord

Author:Paulo Freire

“I remember an old Singer sewing machine at home that belonged to my grandmother. It had a pedal. My mom taught me how to use it when I was 12 years old. I used to find it so intriguing, how a flat piece of material could be made into an object that had so many uses.”

Years Made Use Home Remember Used Pieces Objects Taught Materials Mom Machines My Mom Singers Grandmother Flats My Grandmother Intriguing Sewing Pedals

Author:Bibhu Mohapatra

“All you have to do is pick up a baseball. It begs to you: throw me. If you took a year to design an object to hurl, you'd end up with that little spheroid small enough to nestle in your fingers but big enough to have some heft, lighter than a rock but heavier than a hunk of wood. Its even, neat stitching, laced into the leather's slippery white surface, gives your fingers a purchase. A baseball was made to throw. It's almost irresistible.”

Ifs Giving Years Littles Made Ends Enough Bigs White Rocks Design Objects Picks Baseball Fingers Woods Surface Irresistible Leather Neat Lighters Slippery Hunk

Author:Dave Dravecky

“The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.”

Men Objects Revolution Ideology Liberation Interpretation Application Rebellious Transcendental

Book:Prisoner of Love

Source: Prisoner of Love

“It is incumbent upon the Aghsan, the Afnan and My kindred to turn, one and all, their faces towards the Most Mighty Branch. Consider that which We have revealed in Our Most Holy Book: 'When the ocean of My presence hath ebbed and the Book of My Revelation is ended, turn your faces toward Him Whom God hath purposed, Who hath branched from this Ancient Root.' The object of this sacred verse is none other except the Most Mighty Branch (Abdu'l-Baha). Thus have We graciously revealed unto you our potent Will, and I am verily the Gracious, the All-Powerful.”

Book Faces Turns Powerful Objects Holy Ocean Roots Sacred Ancient Branches Revelations Your Face Verses Gracious Kindred Incumbents Holy Books Baha

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.”

Kind May Art States Use Wonderful Objects Depends Deeper Pleasant Inferiors Vitality Impressive Inferiority True Things

Book:Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

Source: Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

“God gives every animal the means of saving its life-why object if he gives astrology to the astronomer?”

Ifs Giving Mean Animal Objects Saving Astrology Astronomers

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.”

Source: Lodore

“Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.”

Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance

“The word "God" is used in most cases as by no means a term of science or exact knowledge, but a term of poetry and eloquence, a term thrown out, so to speak, as a not fully grasped object of the speaker's consciousness -- a literary term, in short; and mankind mean different things by it as their consciousness differs.”

Mean Different Used Speak Term Consciousness Cases Mankind Objects Thrown Different Things Speakers Eloquence Literary Terms

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

Years Mean Made Real Use Dream Light Language Talking Objects Cinema Hops

Author:Federico Fellini

“The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.”

Giving Art Real Reality Roles Destiny Taken Objects Photography Including Reports Works Of Art Accurate Art Photography Letdowns

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property; to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybeif I go ahead and finish it anywayI can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.”

Ifs World Want Wells Made I Can Book Wanted Hate Turns Next Chance Perfect Objects Color Ten Pages Ideals I Hate Made It Next Time Discouraging Another Chance Accommodations

Author:Joan Didion

“The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet.”

Facts America Feet Objects Believer Leap Heroic Rude Sentimental Marvellous

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.”

Men Causes Views Audience Objects He Man Benefits Pleading

Author:Livy

“Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.”

Men Has Beens Purpose Faith Energy Given Simple Objects Driven Selfishness Motive Indolence Tenacious

Book:The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons

Source: The Secret of Power: And Other Sermons

“Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth century their sole object would have been to write correctly, to conform to the manner of the period. In practice, their conforming individualism means an imitation, studiously concealed, of the eccentricities of poems which really are individual.”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Has Beens Names Individual Practice Century Style Objects Periods Pursue Individualism Sole Imitation Conform Concealed Eccentricity Pseudo Individual Style

Author:Laura Riding

“The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human - human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.”

Men Firsts Humans Religious Practice Objects Activity Errors Casts Conceiving

Author:Laura Riding

“Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”

Men Remember Water Quality Objects He Man Lovers Taste Property Determine Substance Memorable Streams Native One Man Impress Susceptibility Rendezvous Acquired Taste Water Power

Author:George Henry Lewes

“To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.”

Humans Objects Pursuit Centre

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.”

Men May Soul Ends Form Conditions Objects Circumstances Communicate Destroyed Variety Internals Surround Disagree Impress Definite

Author:Wilhelm von Humboldt

“I prefer you to take as your model a mediocre sculpture rather than an excellent painting, for from painted objects we train our hand only to make a likeness, whereas from sculptures we learn to represent both likeness and correct incidence of light.”

Hands Light Objects Painting Models Train Excellent Mediocre Sculpture Incidence

Author:Leon Battista Alberti

“[The Polaroid camera is] a system that will be a partner in perception, enabling us to see the objects in the world around us more vividly than we can see them without it, a system to be an aid to memory and a tool for exploration.”

World Memories Objects Perception Tools Cameras Aids Partners Exploration Enabling Polaroids

Author:Edwin Land

“Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?”

Ifs Company Fields Objects Creating Built Monopoly Nucleus New Company

Author:Edwin Land

“Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.”

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

“Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without.”

Men Mind Humans Able Natural Subjects Mankind Objects Behavior Advantage Fellows Extraordinary Analysis Human Mind Contemplating Human Behavior Fellow Man Investigators

Book:Essential works

Source: Essential works

“All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.”

Earth Existence Effects Objects Degrees Perception Awakening Senses Power Of Thought

Book:Formal Logic

Source: Formal Logic

“I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.”

Thinking Stills Hands Today Wanted Sex Saws Objects Fool Terrible Awful Flattering Like Her

Author:Gail Levin

“Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.”

Ifs Thinking World Would Be Events Objects Creatures Being True True Or False

Book:Truth and Predication

Source: Truth and Predication

“I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.”

Sides Objects Bottom Bounds Finished Boundaries Boat Definite Finishing

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“At concerts, for me, the orchestra was like a painter. It flooded me with all the colours of the rainbow. If the violin came in by itself, I was suddenly filled with gold and fire, and with red so bright I could not remember having seen it on any object.”

Ifs Remember Music Fire Objects Red Gold Filled Painter Colour Concerts Rainbow Orchestra Violin

Author:James Elkins

“The opposite of a glance... is a glimpse: because in a glance, we see only for a second, and in a glimpse, the object shows itself only for a second.”

Shows Objects Opposites Glances Glimpse

Author:James Elkins

“I have always been very much involved in the pseudo biological cycle of production, consumption and destruction. And for a long time, I have been anguished by the fact that one of its most conspicuous material results is the flooding of our world with junk and rejected odd objects.”

World Long Has Beens Art Facts Results Objects Materials Involved Long Time Destruction Productions Odd Cycles Our World Consumption Rejected Junk Pseudo Flooding Contemporary Art

Author:Arman

“It is He who is revealed in every face, sought in every sign, gazed upon by every eye, worshipped in every object of worship, and pursued in the unseen and the visible. Not a single one of His creatures can fail to find Him in its primordial and original nature.”

Eye Faces Failing Objects Creatures Worship Originals Visible Unseen Pursued

Author:Ibn Arabi

“Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.”

Men Desire Objects Vulnerability Confession Matched Confessing Sexual Desire

Author:Warren Farrell

“Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact.”

Facts Objects Significant Yield Scrutiny

Book:The summit of the years

Source: The summit of the years

“Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”

Objects Envy Felicity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.”

Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest

“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”

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