Top Object Quotes

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

You only feel powerless because your fear has given your power to the object of your fear. Once you realise this, you can claim it back.

Object Definition

(v. t.) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

(v. t.) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.

(v. i.) To make opposition in words or argument; -- usually followed by to.

(v. t.) That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible; as, he observed an object in the distance; all the objects in sight; he touched a strange object in the dark.

(v. t.) That which is set, or which may be regarded as set, before the mind so as to be apprehended or known; that of which the mind by any of its activities takes cognizance, whether a thing external in space or a conception formed by the mind itself; as, an object of knowledge, wonder, fear, thought, study, etc.

(v. t.) That by which the mind, or any of its activities, is directed; that on which the purpose are fixed as the end of action or effort; that which is sought for; end; aim; motive; final cause.

(v. t.) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.

(v. t.) A word, phrase, or clause toward which an action is directed, or is considered to be directed; as, the object of a transitive verb.

(a.) Opposed; presented in opposition; also, exposed.

Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred mom...

I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that...

Destination is a primordial intention born in the mind of the creator that promoted him to create a certain object of inanimate nature, animate nature and the highest creature, a human being

Whenever a person is the object of your activity, remember that you may not treat that person as only the means to an end, as in instrument, but must allow for the fact that he or she, too, has or at...

A moment in time is the strangest and most powerful object in the known universe.

Every object holds a story.

A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.

If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects shar...

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria b...

Money is precisely an object whose status depends on how we 'think' about it: if people no longer treat this piece of metal as money, if they no longer 'believe' in it as money, it no longer is money.

The assumption that the problem of love is the problem of an , not the problem of a . People think that to is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by- is difficult.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.