“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.” ArtFactsIndividualObjectsStrikesRelatedOur SocietyThree Strikes Author:Michel Foucault
“Yet the most pervasive error one encounters in contemporary arguments about belief in God-especially, but not exclusively, on the atheist side-is the habit of conceiving of God simply as some very large object or agency within the universe, or perhaps alongside the universe, a being among other beings, who differs from all other beings in magnitude, power, and duration, but not ontologically, and who is related to the world more or less as a craftsman is related to an artifact.” WorldUniverseBeliefSidesObjectsHabitArgumentErrorsAtheistContemporaryRelatedAgencyEncountersMagnitudeDurationBelief In GodCraftsmanArtifactsConceiving Author:David Bentley Hart
“If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible.” IfsThinkingMindDifferentSoulCharacterFormProcessObjectsCapableRelatedThoughtfulSensibleReceivingIdenticalThinkable Book:On the Soul Source: On the Soul
“By the help of God and with His precious assistance, I say that Algebra is a scientific art. The objects with which it deals are absolute numbers and measurable quantities which, though themselves unknown, are related to "things" which are known, whereby the determination of the unknown quantities is possible.” ArtHelpingDealsNumbersKnownObjectsDeterminationAbsolutesRelatedQuantityAssistanceAlgebra Author:Omar Khayyam
“Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope - Jesus Christ is not defective in any way whatsoever. But the view from the struggling Christian's heart of their objective hope could be obscured by disease and pain, the pressures of life, and by Satanic fiery darts shot against them... All discouragement and depression is related to the obscuring of our hope, and we need to get those clouds out of the way and fight like crazy to see clearly how precious Christ is.” WayNeedsHeartChristianPainFightingJesusChristViewsStruggleClearCrazyObjectsDiseaseDepressionShotsJesus ChristPressureCloudsObjectivesRelatedDiscouragementFierySatanicDefectiveDarts Author:John Piper
“The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.” KnowsMeanLiteratureObjectsConceptsMathematicalRelatedEntityKnowing GodMysticImmediacy Book:The religious thought in Islam Source: The religious thought in Islam
“Yearning is inseparable from love, and since once doesn't have the object of love immediately, one has not fallen in the embrace of the beloved immediately, they are suffering. That's how they are related.” SufferingObjectsEmbraceBelovedFallenRelatedYearningInseparable Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr