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. G. K. Chesterton
The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear. Percival Lowell
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
There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards. Roald Dahl