Subject Quotes

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn’t keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Slavery does not merely mean a legalised form of subjection.

If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic.

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

It is a hard and nice subject for a man to speak of himself: it grates his own heart to say anything of disparagement, and the reader’s ear to hear anything of praise from him.

Many have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.

Sex has become one of the most discussed subjects of modern times. The Victorians pretended it did not exist; the moderns pretend nothing else exists.