#objects

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

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Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Thus, they are free to replace some objects by others so long as the relations remain unchanged. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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

— Les Dawson

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Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world. ↗

— George Santayana

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Again, like I said, my life has been about being fascinated by objects and the stories that they tell, and also making them for myself, obtaining them, appreciating them and diving into them. ↗

— Adam Savage

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The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now. ↗

— John Schlesinger

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