Quotes About Subject

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject.

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

Page 25 But if we accept the legitimacy of the subject nevertheless, then a new and contentious series of questions at once opens up.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter.

A shared passion for a subject, large or small, could quickly put two strangers into a special state of subdued rapture and rivalry, distantly resembling love; but you had to hit on the subject.

inverted memories of this immediate revelation, memories that in some puzzling fashion one might have before their subject had occurred. The

God and Goddess. Purusha and Prakriti. Observer and observation. Subject and object. That's what it is. Not this, not that; this too, that too. That's who we are. Tat tvam asi.

The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

In time he found that all his perceptions were subject to the same easy control

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

The project of recovering myself as subject—that is, of recovering my freedom from its entrapment by the Other—necessarily puts me in conflict with the Other.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

Hang on," said Nina, standing up and going inside. She came back with a small book with a woman standing on the cover. "Here." Lissa picked it up. "I got two copies by accident," said Nina. "You can have it." "The Accidental Tourist," read Lissa. "What's it about?" "Healing," said Nina. "Best book ever written on the subject.

classic Shamanism: Archaic techniques of ecstasy. To this day, it is the only attempt at a world synthesis on the subject.

I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money.

capitalism is too important and complex a subject to be left to economists. Achieving a critical comprehension of it requires perspectives beyond those characteristic of modern economics. That is why this is a history not of economic ideas, but of ideas beyond the capitalist economy.

From now on the subject says: "Hullo object!" "I destroyed you.

This axiom of Aristotelian logic has so deeply imbued our habits of thought that it is felt to be "natural" and self-evident, while on the other hand the statement that X is A and not A seems to be nonsensical. (Of course, the statement refers to the subject X at a given time, not to X now and X later, or one aspect of X as against another aspect.)

No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.

I was pretty well through with the subject. At one time or another I had probably considered it from most of its various angles, including the one that certain injuries or imperfections are a subject of merriment while remaining quite serious for the person possessing them.