#bj

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#i #metaphysics #more #myself #other

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

#consciousness #consumption #discarded #even #everything

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge. ↗

— Roy Moore

#judge #might #object #opinions #some

My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith. ↗

— James P. Moran

#anyone #attempt #community #explanation #faith

In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be. ↗

— Alberto Moravia

#experience #external #final #life #live

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#form #goal #isolation #means #never

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#gives #maybe #nostalgia #objectivity #only

Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#almost #everyone #family #find #off

No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#measured #object #temptation #value

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask. ↗

— Robert Motherwell

#behind #european #mask #matter #modern