The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
I don't want any minister to pray for me. But if you want a minister there to pray for the crowd, I won't object.
The sacred demands the violation of what is normally the object of terrified respect.
I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.
Your happiness is the most significant contribution that you could make. In your reaching for happiness, you are opening a vortex which makes you an avenue for the Well-being to flow through you. And anything that is your object of attention under those conditions, benefits by the infusion of your Well-being.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
The face of a woman, whatever be the force or extent of her mind, whatever be the importance of the object she pursues, is always an obstacle or a reason in the story of her life.
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.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
I wanted to kill art for myself. . . . a new thought for that object.
I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.
Contemplation is necessary to generate an object, but action must propagate it.
To beautify life is to give it an object.
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason is set aside, that faith is not a form of knowledge; for all knowledge is either a knowledge of the eternal, excluding the temporal and historical as indifferent, or it is pure historical knowledge. No knowledge can have for its object the absurdity that the eternal is the historical.
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.
The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.
So far, as far as we know Wild 2 is a unique object.