If we imagine that the only right that we have is to make commodifiable objects, then we limit our practice, and we limit the great potential for an understanding between collectors, curators and galleries.
Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.
Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there.
In the past the man has been first; in the future the system must be first... The first object of any good system must be that of developing first class men.
Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rationa...
At that time, the army leadership said the implementation of this agreement would allow everyone, including the IRA, to take its political objectives forward by peaceful and democratic means.
As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.
To me, respect for human life begins with making it more difficult to obtain an inanimate object that is designed to snuff it out.
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.
It's been written that a lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
Keeping objects from your past comes with memories of your past. Let go of both to move on.
Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.
The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons, but children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
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.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.
