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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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One principle reason why men are so often useless is that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
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Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
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Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
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The discover of what is true, and the practice of that which is good, are the two most important objects of philosophy.
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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
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The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.
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The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
Pensees (1669) -
The point of aim for our vigilance to hold in view is to dwell upon the brightest parts in every prospect, to call off the thoughts when running upon disagreeable objects, and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances surrounding us.
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The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.
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This world is empty to him alone who does not understand how to direct his libido towards objects, and to render them alive and beautiful for himself, for Beauty does not indeed lie in things, but in the feeling that we give to them.
The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943) -
To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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