Best ordinary & objects Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.”

Levels Objects Ordinary Sticks Envy Strikes Lightning Felicity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life..”

People Men Way Real Attention Too Much Seeing Position Objects Normal Ordinary Everyday Drawing Objectives Representation Everyday Life Measurement Ordinary Man Summary

Author:Jean Dubuffet

“The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.”

Mind Use Causes Effects Objects Expression Ordinary Paint Worthy Noble Phases Sublime

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The trouble is that when most people are apathetic ordinary people ... have to go too far, have to ruin their lives and be made an object of scorn just to get the point across. Did they really think I'd rather be camping by a polluted river than sitting in my own flat with my things about me?”

People Thinking Made My Own Trouble Objects Ordinary Sitting Rivers Ruins Flats Ordinary People Scorn Camping Apathetic

Book:Sexing the Cherry

Source: Sexing the Cherry

“The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,--that is the secret of the fine arts.”

Art Real Secret Objects Fine Ordinary Illusion Fine Arts

Author:Joseph Joubert

“Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence.”

Mind Looks Real Soul Reason Eye Purpose Order Nature Existence Meditation Objects Masters Buddhism Discipline Ordinary Fundamentals Insight Opening Zen Buddhism Dhyana

Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“A border--the perimeter of a single massive or stretched-out use of territory--forms the edge of an area of 'ordinary' city. Often borders are thought of as passive objects, or matter-of-factly just as edges. However, a border exerts an active influence.”

Matter Use Form Cities Influence Objects Ordinary Areas Edges Active Borders Massive Territory Passive Perimeter

Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

“Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Different Culture Objects Reader Calling Ordinary Distance Representing Exotic Emulate

Author:N.K. Jemisin

“It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.”

Men Spirit Perfect Learning Objects Civilization Ordinary Curiosity Ordinary Man

Author:Woodrow Wilson

“Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.”

May Middle Objects Theory Ordinary Endure Doctrine Chemistry Chapters Deliberate

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Propose a new concept, most people especially acquaintances will outrightly reject it on knowing that it's from an ordinary person; but when the same becomes the popular subject, none will ever reflect to accept that they once used to object to the very same idea's beneficial effect.”

People Persons Ideas Used Accepting Knowing Subjects Effects Objects Ordinary Concepts Rejects Acquaintance Beneficial Propose Ordinary Person

Author:Anuj

“You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.”

Men Giving Mind Difficult Pleasure Objects Taste Ordinary Curiosity Luxury Crowns Cheaper Ordinary Man Caprice Pascal

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“In the late 70's I started to make drawings of the ordinary objects I had been using in my work. Initially I wanted them to be ready-made drawings of the kind of common objects I had always used in my work. I was surprised to discover I couldn't find the simple, neutral drawings I had assumed existed, so I started to make them myself.”

Kind Made Wanted Used Simple Common Objects Ready Late Ordinary Drawing

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .”

Lying Creation Objects Ordinary Mirrors Tenderness Posterity Future Time

Book:The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of crisscrossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible; his life is thus centered not in reality itself but in his ideas of it. By focusing the mind wholly on each objects and every action, zazen strips it of extraneous thoughts and allows us to enter into a full rapport with life.”

Men Mind Ideas Reality Action Life Is Attention Opinion Impossible Objects Ordinary Reflection Prejudice Ordinary Man Rapport Checkerboard

Book:The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

Source: The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment

“The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.”

Needs Doe Values Culture Objects Fine Ordinary Wide Likes Candidates Voters Mediocrity Sensible Originality Vigorous Magnetic Profundity American Voters

Book:The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government

Source: The American Commonwealth: Vol. 1: The National Government

“When everything that is called art was well and truly riddled with rheumatism, the photographer lit the thousands of candles whose power is contained in his flame, and the sensitive paper absorbed by degrees the blackness cut out of some ordinary object. He had invented a fresh and tender flash of lightning.”

Wells Art Cutting Objects Degrees Paper Ordinary Photographer Flames Sensitive Candle Flash Lightning Lit Blackness

Author:Tristan Tzara

“My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.”

Reality Life Is Objects Emotional Source Behavior Normal Ordinary Endless Invisible Familiar Manifestation Visible Fascination Unfamiliar Abnormal Ordinary Life

Author:Sandy Skoglund

“For example, John Law's Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That's how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn's presence, and the jinn's presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.”

Made Law Night Company Gone Magic Share Example Objects Changed Ordinary Made It Smoke Bottles Venture Lamps Carpet Printed Seals Mississippi Charmed Inscriptions Arabian Jinn Arabian Nights

Author:Marina Warner

“The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.”

“So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some people freak out and turn that person into either an object of worship or, some people freak out and want to kill that person. I think it's because they know what's true but they don't want to know, they don't want to face up to what that actually means. So they're going to kill the messenger and hope that by doing so they'll destroy the message so they can go back to living their ordinary life again.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Mean Persons Doe Faces Turns Effort Objects Worship Messages Ordinary Freak Messengers Ordinary Life

Author:Brad Warner

“I reject what I see as flat-footed accounts of the fundamental structure of the world, where we somehow assume that, because ordinary experience involves middle-sized objects in space and time, that fundamental reality must be essentially like that.”

World Reality Space Middle Objects Ordinary Accounts Fundamentals Structure Assuming Rejects Flats Time And Space

Author:L.A. Paul

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation and foreign commerce. ... The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives and liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement and prosperity of the State.”

“It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.”

Mind Ideas Universe Speak Interest Cases Meditation Objects Reader Ordinary Understood Nervous Contemplation Buried Intensity Adequate

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”

Has Beens Made Earth Realizing Clear Childhood Dog Objects Ordinary Cat Army Everyday Enormous Forests Familiar Grass Chairs Dirt Unfamiliar Pebbles Swarms Everyday Things Clear Day

Book:Cosmos: A Novel

Source: Cosmos: A Novel

“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.”

Thinking Ideas Matter Facts Form Language Modern Objects Ordinary Decided Favors Physics Mathematical Smallest Units Plato Modern Physics

Book:Natural law and the structure of matter

Source: Natural law and the structure of matter

“Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.”

Way Made Use Common Conditions Objects Ordinary Extraordinary Entity

Book:Dialogues II

Source: Dialogues II

“In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.”

Should Mind President Rooms Fronts Objects Findings Ordinary Snow Pot Flags Hung Marble Pillars Stew Vipers President Snow

Book:Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

Source: Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)

“With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become irreplaceable mementos of a lost world whose every detail figured in the meaning of the whole.”

World Whole Father Lost Streets Objects Changed Scene Ordinary Everyday Details Everyday Life Irreplaceable Memento

Book:The Museum of Innocence

Source: The Museum of Innocence

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.”

People Ifs Way Wisdom Christian Next Christ Objects Holy Glory Ordinary Blessed Mere Neighbor Senses Mortals Verses Sacraments Ordinary People Blessed Sacrament Mere Mortals

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Of Cooking. This is an art of various forms, the object of which is to give ordinary observations the appearance and character of those of the highest degree of accuracy. One of its numerous processes is to make multitudes of observations, and out of these to select only those which agree, or very nearly agree. If a hundred observations are made, the cook must be very unhappy if he cannot pick out fifteen or twenty which will do for serving up.”

Source: Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage

“The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.”

“"You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."”

“Skeptics, who flatly deny the existence of any unexplained phenomenon in the name of 'rationalism,' are among the primary contributors to the rejection of science by the public. People are not stupid and they know very well when they have seen something out of the ordinary. When a so-called expert tells them the object must have been the moon or a mirage, he is really teaching the public that science is impotent or unwilling to pursue the study of the unknown.”

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