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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

"Athenaeum Fragments" (1798) by Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

"Historian Tony Judt dies aged 62" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.

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

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

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

"Héraclius". Play by Pierre Corneille, preface, 1646.