Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus

And by the way I don't object if people want to attack me, that's their right. All I'm suggesting that it's not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking.
Newt Gingrich

Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel Kant

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant

I say to mankind, Be not curious about God. For I, who am curious about each, am not curious about God - I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
Walt Whitman

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
Walt Whitman

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
James Madison

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw

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.
Charles Spurgeon

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri Frederic Amiel

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

If somebody hits you with an object you should beat the hell out of them.
Charles Barkley

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow