Subjects Quotes - Page 4
About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
"Athenaeum Fragments" (1798) by Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.
The conscious experience of being a subject arises when a single organism learns to enslave itself.
Thomas Metzinger (2009). “The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self”, p.96, Basic Books
It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.
Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.253, Northwestern University Press
Worthy or not, my life is my subject, and my subject is my life.
Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.184
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.6, 谷月社
Preface (written 1918)
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
Plato, R. Hackforth (1952). “Plato: Phaedrus”, p.161, Cambridge University Press
"Héraclius". Play by Pierre Corneille, preface, 1646.
"Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Preface, 1906.