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

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.
Florence Nightingale

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

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes

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

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
Gore Vidal

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Maimonides

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
Erich Fromm

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
Noel Coward

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
Joseph Addison

To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
Simone de Beauvoir

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul Gauguin

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

The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
Elbert Hubbard

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle