#object

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#divorced #essence #meaning #object #reference

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#examples #familiar #material #may #objects

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans. ↗

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

#driven #extend #foreign #foreign policy #government

Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good. ↗

— Ted Rall

#any #because #better #big #comics

He can develop sense and style, in the manner of distinguished modern prose, in which event he may be sure that the result will not fall into any objective form. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. ↗

— John C. Ransom

#accident #also #between #discoverable #except

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic

It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them. ↗

— Man Ray

#determination #dreams #just #never #object

This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured. ↗

— Charles Francis Richter

#astronomical #astronomy #being #brightness #depending

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#conduct #final #good #highest #law