125 Quotes About Objects

To treat an object primarily as part of a network is to assume it can be reduced to that set of qualities and relations that it manifests in this particular network.

Man has become less rational than his own objects, which now run ahead of him, so to speak, organizing his surroundings and thus appropriating his actions.

History is a madman's museum.

In poetically well built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time.

Empirical objects become signs (or they are looked at as signs) only from the point of view of a philosophical decision.

books as objects are not what books are, it's not what's important about them

We cannot do anything with an object that has no name.

Sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about you.

I thought of that lost book and all the memories it held and how it was just one of millions of objects in the world loaded with secret history which pass hands until eventually they excite nothing more than mild curiosity or, often, complete apathy. It was like all the sadness and loneliness of life resided in these objects. I realised the moment anything loses its context it becomes a husk.