Quotes of: Objections Keyword

There comes a point when you realize that these things, these brands, aren't "enough." Having more or better or best doesn't provide you with a lasting sense of having more or being better or being best. It's a rather fleeting experience, this romant...

Look Both Ways: Illustrated Essays on the Intersection of Life and Design

Although forms appear to the mind, the (objective) appearances are not mind.... When the reflection of your face appears in a mirror, it appears as the face looks, because the clear surface of the mirror is capable of making the reflection appear and...

The Practice of Dzogchen

If you can't reuse or repair an item, do you ever really own it? Do you ever really own it? Do you ever develop the sense of pride and proprietorship that comes from maintaining an object in fine working order? We invest something of ourselves in our...

Plastic: A Toxic Love Story

It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered by Augustine and Aquinas. On this ancient-medieval-properly-postmodern model, we rightly give up pr...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, looking at the sky. Now and then, a shooting star would trace a bright arc across the heavens. The longer I watched, though, the more nervous it made m...

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects

Early Work, 1970-1979

The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

Fight Club

...there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

A Familiar Rain

one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

The Great Gatsby

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Gilead

Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

The truth is the object of our lust But the light is still so very dim…

Holes in Space - a poetry collection

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

The Hero and the Crown

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa

Awakening the Buddha Within: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World

Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

Beyond Good and Evil

They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

The Brothers Karamazov

Mustafa Kemal drily reminds his co-conspirators that the object is not to die for the revolution, but to live for it.

Birds Without Wings

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Horace Walpole

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Walter Pater

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

Edward Sapir

Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.

Eugenio Montale