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.
The object is freedom.
God is immanent in every atom, all-pervading, all-sustaining, all-evolving; He is its source and its end, its cause and its object, its centre and circumference; it is built on Him as its sure foundation, it breathes in Him as its encircling space; He is in everything and everything in Him.
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
God cannot be an object. It is deepest depth of your own being. How can you see it.
While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder.
We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.
The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
The first thing that intellect does with an object is to class it with something else.
Sex itself only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object - and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about - to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do "sexual relations. " As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality.
The object is that which is objected against me.
Theology is a subject without an object
The photograph as an object has a relationship to that which it represents something like the relationship the snake skin has to the snake that sheds it.
And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation.
No temptation can ever be measured by the value of its object.
I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous.
I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.