#objects

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#another #closely #cure #egotism #excessive

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #desire #every #every man #external

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#feelings #good #good music #motivated #mysterious

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ↗

— George Eliot

#bear #jealousy #lose #love #more

People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK? ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#always #am #art #artist #clearly

And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#become #created #eternal #finite #god

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#objects #own #pictures #position #should

The Shakespeare that Shakespeare became is the name that's attached to these astonishing objects that he left behind. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#attached #became #behind #left #name

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

#compass #ever #found #happiness #immediately

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

— T. S. Eliot

#only #selves #space #time #world