Subjects Quotes - Page 9

• Some subjects are so serious that one can only joke about them.

  Niels Bohr

  Serious, Jokes

  "The Genius of Science: A Portrait Gallery". Book by Abraham Pais, 2000.

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• It's without doubt my main subject. The way masculinity can go wrong. And I'm something of a gynocrat in a utopian kind of way.

  Martin Amis

  Doubt, Way, Kind

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• Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

  James G. Frazer

  Development, Study, Influence

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.

  Pauline Kael

  Addiction, Directors, Noir

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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• A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of an experiment demanding so little in the way of esoteric gift that any number can play at it, provided they have taken a certain number of courses) and our research subjects (it would be deemed snobbish to investigate only the best people).

  David Riesman

  Taken, Play, Numbers

  David Riesman (1955). “Selected essays from Individualism reconsidered”

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• The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap will govern the rest... In a pure democracy the ruling men will be the wirepullers and their friends; but they will no more be on an equality with the voters than soldiers of Ministers of State are on an equality with the subjects of monarchy.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Cutting, Men, Numbers

  James Fitzjames Stephen (1873). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.240

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• Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.

  Will Cuppy

  Writing, Lions, Necks

  "The Lion". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Feet, May, Praying

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.174

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• The motive for criticizing myth, that is, its objectifying representations, is present in myth itself, insofar as its real intention to talk about a transcendent power to which both we and the world are subject is hampered and obscured by the objectifying character of its assertions.

  Rudolf Bultmann

  Real, Character, World

  "New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings". Book by Rudolf Bultmann, pp. 10, 1984.

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• If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

  John von Neumann

  Might, Transformation, Mathematical

  John Von Neumann, F. Br¢dy, Tibor V mos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.632, World Scientific

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• We shall see that the mathematical treatment of the subject [of electricity] has been greatly developed by writers who express themselves in terms of the 'Two Fluids' theory. Their results, however, have been deduced entirely from data which can be proved by experiment, and which must therefore be true, whether we adopt the theory of two fluids or not. The experimental verification of the mathematical results therefore is no evidence for or against the peculiar doctrines of this theory.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Data, Two, Doctrine

  James Clerk Maxwell (1873). “A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism”, p.38

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• The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease.

  Carl Orff

  Latin, Drinking, Ignorance

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• In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Michael Shermer

  Faith, Religious, Argument

  Michael Shermer (2010). “Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown”, p.197, Macmillan

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• I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In other words, I reject a racial classification of humans for the same reasons that I prefer not to divide into subspecies the prodigiously variable West Indian land snails that form the subject of my own research.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Land, Differentiation, Research

  "Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Why We Should Not Name Human Races - A Biological View", p. 231, 1977.

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• The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Father, Team

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, April 22, 1961.

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• Neither nature, experience, nor probability informs these lists of 'entitlements', which are subject to no constraints except those of the mind and appetite of their authors.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Mind, Lists, Entitlement

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (1982). “Human Rights and American Foreign Policy: Essays”

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• The "through-and-through" universe seems to suffocate me with its infallible impeccable all-pervasiveness. Its necessity , with no possibilities; its relations, with no subjects, make me feel as if I had entered into a contract with no reserved rights ... It seems too buttoned-up and white-chokered and clean-shaven a thing to speak for the vast slow-breathing unconscious Kosmos with its dread abysses and its unknown tides.

  William James

  Breathing, White, Rights

  "Essays in Radical Empiricism". Book by William James, Ch. 12 : Absolutism and Empiricism, 1912.

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• Men who profess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the common interest of their fellow subjects; and act with independence to that constitution into which they are incorporated. The safety of the whole requires our joint endeavours. When this is at stake, the indifferent are not properly a part of the community; or rather are like dead limbs, which are an encumbrance to the body, instead of being of use to it.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Safety, Community

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison”, p.194

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• It is a melancholy consideration that there should be several among us so hardened and deluded as to think an oath a proper subject for a jest; and to make this, which is one of the most solemn acts of religion, an occasion of mirth. Yet such is the depravation of our manners at present, that nothing is more frequent than to hear profligate men ridiculing, to the best of their abilities, these sacred pledges of their duty and allegiance; and endeavouring to be witty upon themselves, for daring to prevaricate with God and man.

  Joseph Addison

  Witty, Men, Thinking

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Tatler. The Guardian. The Freeholder. The Whig-examiner. The lover. Dialogues upon the usefulness of ancient medals. Remarks on several parts of Italy, etc. The present state of the war. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The evidences of the Christian religion. Essay on Virgil's Georgics. Poems on several occasions. Translations from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Notes on some of the foregoing stories in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Poemata. Rosamond. Cato. The drummer”, p.181

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• We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own.

  Marcel Proust

  Views, People, May

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.674, Wordsworth Editions

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• In philosophical anthropology, ... where the subject is man in his wholeness, the investigator cannot content himself, as in anthropology as an individual science, with considering man as another part of nature and with ignoring the fact that he, the investigator, is himself a man and experiences this humanity in his inner experience in a way that he simply cannot experience any part of nature.

  Martin Buber

  Philosophical, Men, Humanity

  Martin Buber, S. N. Eisenstadt (1992). “On Intersubjectivity and Cultural Creativity”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• That's what the Nazis did, isn't it? Treated those "others" they thought subhuman by making them lab subjects and so on. Even the Nazis didn't eat the objects of their derision.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Labs, Nazi, Treated

  "Mother nature (part two)". Interview with Michael Spencer, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2003.

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• Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

  Jane Austen

  Genius, Letters, Checks

  Jane Austen (2012). “The Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.70, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is perhaps no sort of self more subject to dangerous egotism than that which deludes itself with the notion that it is not a self at all, but something else. It is well to beware of persons who believe that the cause, the mission, the philanthropy, the hero, or whatever it may be that they strive for, is outside of themselves, so that they feel a certain irresponsibility, and are likely to do things which they would recognize as wrong if done in behalf of an acknowledged self.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Believe, Hero, Self

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• A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

  Matthew Henry

  Color, Meditation, Garments

  Matthew Henry, Philip Henry (1855). “The miscellaneous works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: containing in addition to those heretofore published, numerous sermons and papers, now first printed from the original manuscripts. With forty sermons on what Christ is made to believers, by Philip Henry; funeral sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry; funeral sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams”, p.203

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