#objects

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#knowledge #materialism #mind #money #objects

[He] had insisted that inanimate objects couldn't have malignant motivations, but Emma had extensive proof to the contrary. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#inanimate-objects #motivational

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#entertainment #life #objects #people #phenomenon

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#construction #expensive #installation #makes #objects

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#attention #been #devoted #effort #experimental

I sat at a table in my shadowy kitchen, staring down a bottle of Boone's Farm Hard Lemonade, when a magic fluctuation hit. My wards shivered and died, leaving my home stripped of its defenses. The TV flared into life, unnaturally loud in the empty house. I raised my eyebrow at the bottle and bet it that another urgent bulletin was on. The bottle lost. "Urgent bulletin!" Margaret Chang announced. "The Attorney General advises all citizens that any attempt at summoning or other activities resulting in the appearance of a supernaturally powerful being can be hazardous to yourself and to other citizens." "No shit," I told the bottle. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#change

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. ↗

— Jean Paul

#darkness #death #dying #evening #like

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship. ↗

— Lucan

#chooses #ever #friendship #his #loyal

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#eye #false #fill #human #human eye

The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made. ↗

— Leah Hager Cohen

#labor #objects #price #society #value