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• The greater emotion with which we conceive a loved object to be affected toward us, the greater will be our complacency.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Complacency, Emotion

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.122, Commodius Vicus

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• If anyone conceives, that an object of his love joins itself to another with closer bonds of friendship than he himself has attained to, he will be affected with hatred towards the loved object and with envy towards his rival.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Envy, Hatred

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.122, Commodius Vicus

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• If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hate, Love Is

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.125, Commodius Vicus

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• Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Art, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Garden, Essentials

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1857). “Essays: First Series”, p.321

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• To the natural philosopher, there is no natural object unimportant or trifling. From the least of Nature's works he may learn the greatest lessons.

  John Herschel

  Nature, Lessons, May

  Sir John Frederick William Herschel, William Whewell, George Henry Lewes, Hermann von Helmholz, James Clerk Maxwell (1996). “The Origins of Modern Philosophy of Science, 1830-1914: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy”

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• In the range of inorganic nature. I doubt if any object can be found more perfectly beautiful than a fresh, deep snowdrift, seen under warm light.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Nature, Light

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.91

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• The universe is composed of subjects to be communed with, not objects to be exploited. Everything has its own voice. Thunder and lightening and stars and planets, flowers, birds, animals, trees, ~~ all these have voices, and they constitute a community of existence that is profoundly related.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Stars, Flower

  "A Language Older Than Words". Book by Derrick Jensen (p. 361), 2000.

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• It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

  Samuel Adams

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Mistake

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

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• This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Race, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1991). “Great Speeches”, p.73, Courier Corporation

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• But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Poetry, Sensual

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• Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.

  John Diefenbaker

  Strong, Essence, Freedom Of Speech

  John George Diefenbaker (1982). “The Wit & Wisdom of John Diefenbaker”, Hurtig Trade

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• The object of power is power.

  George Orwell

  Power

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 3 (1949)

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• It would be impossible to "love" anyone or anything one knew completely. Love is directed towards what lies hidden in its object.

  Paul Valery

  Love, Relationship, Distance

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• Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Communication, Science, Prose And Poetry

  "Definitions of Poetry" (1811)

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• The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education ... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual, and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.

  John Dewey

  Change, Education, Mean

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom.

  Arun Manilal Gandhi

  Educational, Justice, Society

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Wisdom, Blessed

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• Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

  Charles Dickens

  Change, Caring, Men

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit ... With a Frontispiece, from a Drawing by F. Stone”, p.180

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• Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Inspirational, Courage, Empowerment

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Transfer the point of concentration to some object outside of yourself - another person, a puzzle, a broken plate that you are gluing.

  Sanford Meisner

  Broken, Acting, Plates

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• The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is to be fully conscious, to be aware of surroundings and the people around, to move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Moving, Yoga

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• It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Worship, Pursuit

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• Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a strong spiritual instinct, and seeks to form channels for itself where none exists; thus Americans, in the dearth of other objects to worship, fall to worshiping themselves.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Strong, Fall

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 18, 1843.

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• Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

  Northrop Frye

  Understanding, Intellectual, Atheism

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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