Objects Quotes - Page 38

• My wife is a sex object - every time I ask for sex, she objects.

  Les Dawson

  Funny, Sexy, Sex Relationships

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I must be, absolutely, a total sex object. In every sense of the word.

  Steven Morrissey

  Sex, Memorable, Thinking

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• Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.

  Betty Rollin

  Sex, Differences, Feminist

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• Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Photography, Humanity, Body

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• A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects.

  Wynn Bullock

  Photography, Unique, Thinking

  "Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning".

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• To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

  John Berger

  Sight, Order, Naked

  "John Berger obituary" by Michael McNay, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2017.

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• Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.

  Robert Thurman

  God, Religious, Goal

  Robert Thurman (1999). “Inner Revolution”, p.54, Penguin

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• Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

  Plato

  Plato, Numbers, Soul

  Plato, Julius A. Sigler (1997). “Education: Ends and Means”, p.24, University Press of America

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• If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

  Plato

  Plato, Believe, Ties

  Plato, John Llewelyn DAVIES (1852). “The Republic of Plato, Translated Into English, with an Introduction, Analysis, and Notes. By J. Ll. Davies and D. J. Vaughan”, p.289

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• And first he will see the shadows best, next the reflections of men and other objects in the water, and then the objects themselves, then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangled heaven...Last of all he will be able to see the sun.

  Plato

  Stars, Plato, Men

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• Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

  Paola Antonelli

  Technology, Small Objects, Ipods

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• The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

  Jordan Peterson

  Creativity, Creative, Normal

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• Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Religious, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Feb 23, 2017

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• Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to explore their worlds.

  Sandra Scarr

  Baby, Opportunity, Names

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• One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Interesting, Greed

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• True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.

  Gangaji

  Simple, People, Joy

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• For the religious, passivism [i.e., objects are obedient to the laws of nature] provides a clear role of God as the author of the laws of nature. If the laws of nature are God's commands for an essentially passive world ..., God also has the power to suspend the laws of nature, and so perform miracles.

  Brian Ellis

  God, Religious, Science

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• Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise and subside. Silence, stillness and awareness are not states and can never be perceived in their totality as objects. Silence is itself the eternal witness without form or attributes. As you rest more profoundly as the witness, all objects take on their natural functionality, and awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive contractions and identifications. It returns to its natural non-state of Presence.

  Adyashanti

  Silence, Meditation, Mind

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• In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself. Primordial awareness is the source in which all objects arise and subside. As you gently relax into awareness, into listening, the mind's compulsive contraction around objects will fade. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

  Adyashanti

  Knowing, Meditation, Listening

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• We add that it would be all too easy to object that mutations have no evolutionary effect because they are eliminated by natural selection. Lethal mutations (the worst kind) are effectively eliminated, but others persist as alleles. ...Mutants are present within every population, from bacteria to man. There can be no doubt about it. But for the evolutionist, the essential lies elsewhere: in the fact that mutations do not coincide with evolution.

  Pierre-Paul Grasse

  Lying, Men, Doubt

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• There are many doors to goodness. (Saying) 'glory to God,' 'praise be to God,' 'there is no deity but God,' enjoining good, forbidding evil, removing harm from the road, listening to the deaf (until you understand them), leading the blind, guiding one to the object of his need, hurrying with the strength of one's legs to one in sorrow who is asking for help, and supporting the weak with the strength of one's arms - all of these are (forms of) charity prescribed for you.

  Muhammad

  Positive, Asking For Help, Doors

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• I'm not so sure liberal democracy as we know it has reached its terminus. It's clear though, that many have genuinely lost confidence in the Australian political class. One reason is that we like to place enormous burdens of expectations on modern political leaders. To be sure such expectations aren't always honest. Just as we want better public services but object to paying the higher taxes that would make them possible, we often want leadership but only if there aren't hard choices with real consequences.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Leadership, Real, Class

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• Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

  Austin O'Malley

  Children, Civilization, Balloons

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• In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that are objects of sustainable public action-become not only occasions for collaboration by invaluable sources of citizen education in their own right because they are the occasions for learning such skills.

  Harry Boyte

  Skills, People, Democracy

  Harry Chatten Boyte (1989). “CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics”

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• He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Faith, Inspiration, Rose

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