#bj

Philosophers are people who do violence, but have no army at their disposal, and so subjugate the world by locking it into a system. ↗

— Robert Musil

#disposal #into #locking #people #philosophers

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#around #color #effect #feel #how

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. ↗

— George Orwell

#assume #be happy #happiness #happy #life

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it. ↗

— Michael Rapaport

#documentary film #film #i #producers #should

The figure is still the only thing I have faith in in terms of how much emotion it's charged with and how much subject matter is there. ↗

— Jim Dine

#emotion #faith #figure #how #i

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds. ↗

— Tryon Edwards

#bring #characters #form #great #great minds

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#comfortable #doctrine #happiness #misery #moral

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise. ↗

— Pam Gems

#am #anyone #disguise #everyone #i

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#filters #his #own #past #prism

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience. ↗

— Adam Smith

#conscience #excesses #feared #more #regulation