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“I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.”

Men May Enough Today Christ Objects He Man Essentials Photography Worship Photographer Documentaries Best Nature Documentary Photography

Author:Aaron Siskind

“It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of Art to give things shape. Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.”

Giving Art Character Process Objects Wind Shapes Essentials Perception Definitions Delight East Boundaries Artistic Firm Outlines No Boundaries

Author:Vance Palmer

“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.”

Has Beens Feelings Natural Emotion Objects Essentials Independent Appearance Meaningless

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?”

“Production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.”

Men World Way Long Realizing Economy Objects Essentials Capitalism Profit Productions Features Capitalist New Ways Maximum Profitable Margins World Economy Profit Margin

Book:The Capitalist World-Economy

Source: The Capitalist World-Economy

“What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.”

“Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.”

Kind Art Events Objects Essentials Journalism Dramatic Exaggeration

Book:The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer

Source: The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer

“First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.”

Firsts Chance Objects Produce Circumstances Essentials Foolish Variety Merit First Love Chances Are Proximity

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Wealth brings noble opportunities, and competence is a proper object of pursuit; but wealth, and even competence, may be bought at too high a price. Wealth itself has no moral attribute. It is not money, but the love of money, which is the root of all evil. It is the relation between wealth and the mind and the character of its possessor which is the essential thing.”

Mind May Character Evil Opportunity Wealth Moral Objects Essentials Roots Relation Noble Pursuit Attributes Competence Love Of Money

Book:The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc

Source: The Dangers and Duties of the Mercantile Profession. An Address Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Association, Etc

“Let's call something a rigid designator if in every possible world it designates the same object, a non-rigid or accidental designator if that is not the case. Of course we don't require that the objects exist in all possible worlds.... When we think of a property as essential to an object we usually mean that it is true of that object in any case where it would have existed. A rigid designator of a necessary existent can be called strongly rigid.”

Ifs Thinking World Mean Courses Cases Objects Essentials Property

Author:Saul Kripke

“In a sense, every tool is a machine--the hammer, the ax, and the chisel. And every machine is a tool. The real distinction is between one man using a tool with his hands and producing an object that shows at every stage the direction of his will and the impression of his personality; and a machine which is producing, without the intervention of a particular man, objects of a uniformity and precision that show no individual variation and have no personal charm. The problem is to decide whether the objects of machine production can possess the essential qualities of art.”

“In almost every computation a great variety of arrangements for the succession of the processes is possible, and various considerations must influence the selections amongst them for the purposes of a calculating engine. One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.”

Purpose Process Influence Objects Essentials Various Variety Consideration Engines Minimum Arrangements Selection Calculations Succession Calculating Completing Computation

Author:Ada Lovelace

“If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.”

Ifs Use Wish Liberty Economy Economic Objects Particular Essentials Preserves Sufficient Justification Coercion Free Society Desirability

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“One essential object is to choose that arrangement which shall tend to reduce to a minimum the time necessary for completing the calculation.”

Objects Essentials Minimum Arrangements Calculations Completing

Author:Ada Lovelace