To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race.
[Letter to the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, January 1793]
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Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.
Chuck PalahniukNothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
André BretonTags: reality surrealism object subject
All objects exist in a moment of time.
Amy TanThe quality of beauty lies on
how beholder values an object.
Tags: beauty quality value beholder object
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
James JoyceTags: art creation artist question beautiful object
I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.
Frederick DouglassTags: thinking human frederick-douglass animal object beast
Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for the true collector, merge in each one of his possessions into a magical encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.
Walter BenjaminConcurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied.
bell hooksTags: love heart satisfaction desire relationship breakup object partner
A celebrity is an object that the media manufactures today, just so they have a subject tomorrow.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: fame celebrity television magazines newspaper famous tv object subject the-media the-news
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