#objects

The question of the composition of perceptible objects is one which already occupied the mind of the ancient Greeks. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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

— Tryon Edwards

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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go. ↗

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

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Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. ↗

— John Fowles

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