Quotes About Subject

Lesbian is the only concept I know of which is beyond the categories of sex (woman and man), because the designated subject (lesbian) is not a woman, either economically, or politically, or ideologically. For what makes a woman is a specific relationship to a man, a relationship which we have previously called servitude, a relation which lesbians escape by refusing to become or stay heterosexual.

At Bologna, the students held control of their university, hired and fired professors, fined them for unexcused absences or lateness, for wandering from their subject, and for dodging difficult questions.

Though Leibniz may have had special reasons for considering base two, neither this base nor any other had until recently been seriously considered as a substitute for base ten. In fact, aside from incidental uses of other bases in higher mathematics to facilitate an occasional proof, the subject of bases other than ten was regarded until recently as an intellectual amusement.

Those who love so much should focus their thoughts on beauty, and then learn to close the other eye when seeing the ugliness of the subject presented.

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether. To

But what I am claiming here is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. Our television set keeps us in constant communion with the world, but it does so with a face whose smiling countenance is unalterable. The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining, which is another issue altogether.

It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)

One subject we hearkened back to again and again was the question of whether there were tigers in Africa.

Irish people will read anything as long as it's about them. That's what I think. We are our own greatest subject and though we've gone and looked elsewhere about the world we have found that there are just no people, no subject as fascinating as We Ourselves.

Machinery and equipment and other producer goods were subject to what was referred to as "unified distribution" (????),

One 'is' a genius only in the sense that one 'is' a syphilitic, in the sense that 'one' is violently problematized by a ferocious exteriority. One returns to the subject of which genius has been predicated to find it charred and devastated beyond recognition.

While a weapon that could induce such powerful hallucinations would undoubtedly be of great military value, the theory fails for a number of reasons, including the global nature of the phenomenon, and the fact that the subject is now so high-profile that the abductors

Edwin smiled at her, that spreading, lard-melt smile of a king roping his subject, harnessing her to his purpose.

Leave alone your desires and fears and give your entire attention to the subject, to he who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself.

Nie mo?emy traktowa? czynu kobiety jako w pe?ni ?wiadomego - odezwa? si? znowu Frommer. - Psychologia kobieca udowodni?a, ?e kobieta jest jednocze?nie i podmiotem, i przedmiotem, wi?c jej wybory mog? by? tylko w pewnej cz??ci ?wiadome... (...) Kobiety ze swej natury s? delikatniejsze i bardziej wra?liwe, dlatego tak ?atwo sk?aniaj? si? do czynów nieprzemy?lanych.

Some people contend that this means the complete integration of subject and object whenever they meet. This interpretation is interesting in content, but it is not necessarily substantiated by anything in the literature of Zen.

As long as we make the Truth and the Absolute our primary objects without transcending the duality of subject and object, we are not said to be in zazen, even if we formally sit in strict conformity to its requirements.

The distinction between samadhi and attachment (following forms) depends on whether we are completely one with objects, liberated from mind and body, or whether we remain even slightly attached to the duality of subject and object.

When even a child like me—with no merit—is given respect and affection in such a manner, then he will determine to do the best he can. Your Grace lays too many harsh words upon Lord Hamlet. When you speak in this manner, it leaves him with no legs to stand on. He is the master to whom we subjects will offer up our lives in order to defend our kingdom. You should take better care of him.

A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.

I even tried to join the army, but they wouldn't have me. The bloke in the uniform took one look at my ugly mug and said, 'Sorry, we want subjects, not objects'.

Although there are many commonalities among wargames, there are also enormous variations in their purposes and designs. The goals of the hobby game player and the goals of the security professional are not the same, although both might be employing very similar game systems. Contrariwise, even games that ostensibly cover the same subject matter can do so in widely divergent ways.

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.