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“It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him.”

Thinking Men Natural Creation Objects Degrees All Things Relation Regard Egotism

Book:Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

Source: Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life

“Oh! grief is fantastic; it weaves a web on which to trace the history of its woe from every form and change around; it incorporates itself with all living nature; it finds sustenance in every object; as light, it fills all things, and, like light, it gives its own colors to all.”

Giving Light Form Grief Objects Color All Things Fantastic Woe Sustenance

Book:The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

Source: The last man, by the author of Frankenstein

“Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.”

Eye Running Moving Form Careers Four Movement Objects All Things Accounts Horse Twenties Mad Legs Disappear Rapids Vibrations Profile

Author:Giacomo Balla

“in the mind of man, A motion and a spirit, that impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.”

Thinking Men Mind Spirit Objects All Things Thoughtful Humankind

Book:Lyrical Ballads

Source: Lyrical Ballads

“Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.”

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding

“I loved him. I hated him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to strangle him. I was a walking, talking contradiction. There were days I was so torn by my conflicting emotions that I thought I would be ripped in half. Staring at my best friend and secret object of my undying love, I wondered if I would ever get off this crazy train of emotions swirling around inside me. I didn't like feeling this way. But the truth was I couldn't remember a time I didn't feel this aching need to completely immerse myself in all things Daniel Lowe.”

“Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely.”

Thinking Wells Art Ideas Would Be Form Figures Objects Painting Shapes All Things Circles Absurd Metaphysics Imagery Figurative Art

Author:Pablo Picasso

“We see that God has implanted in all things a natural desire to exist with the fullest measure of existence that is compatible with their particular nature. To this end they are endowed with suitable faculties and activities; and by means of these there is in them a discernment that is natural and in keeping with the purpose of their knowledge, which ensures their natural inclination serving its purpose and being able to reach its fulfilment in that object towards which it is attracted by the weight of its own nature.”

Mean Ends Able Desire Purpose Natural Existence Objects Particular Activity All Things Weight Serving Faculty Inclination Discernment Suitable Compatible Fulfilment

Author:Nicholas of Cusa