Subject Quotes
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
Matsuo BashoMatsuo Basho Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman People get into the habit of entrusting the things they desire to wishful thinking, and subjecting things they don’t desire to exhaustive thinking.
ThucydidesThucydides When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. Heinlein The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I’m not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.
Dick CavettDick Cavett Conspicuous by his absence.
TacitusTacitus Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
Alan KayAlan Kay I don’t think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.
John BrownJohn Brown These people are very unskilled in arms – with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinPierre Teilhard de Chardin The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. HeinleinRobert A. Heinlein Of all the calamities to which humanity is subject, none is so dreadful as insanity. … All experience shows that insanity seasonably treated is as certainly curable as a cold or a fever.
Dorothea DixDorothea Dix We can never know, for the good reason that writing is the destruction of every voice, every origin. Writing is that neuter, that composite, that obliquity into which our subject flees, the black-and-white where all identity is lost, beginning with the very identity of the body that writes.
Roland BarthesRoland Barthes The essence of neo-colonialism is that the State which is subject to it is, in theory, independent and has all the outward trappings of international sovereignty.
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
Alan AyckbournAlan Ayckbourn Toxicity, hatred, and negativity say less about the subject but say far more about those who spew it.
Joshua BassettJoshua Bassett