My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.
I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
My point is that when you look at a rabbit and can see only a pest, or vermin, or a meal, or a commodity, or a laboratory subject, you aren't seeing the rabbit anymore. You are seeing only yourself and the schemes and appetites we bring to the world-seeing, come to think of it, like an animal instead of as a moral being with moral vision.
Kant is not saying - about freedom or any other subject - anything of the form: "Not-p but we must assume that p. " That's close to self-contradictory, like Moore's paradox: "p, but I don't believe that p".
If the subject is in a suffering circumstance, it is all the more preferable to apply craft to the utmost. Call it art or not, we photographers should always try to pass on our observations with the utmost clarity.
My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.
. . . Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
The first songs I wrote were catchy, but the subject matter was God.
As to blood—ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.
He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.
Dropping of the atomic bomb was the main subject of conversation for many years and so people had very strong feelings about it on both sides and people who thought it was the greatest thing they'd ever done and people who thought it was just an unpleasant job and people who thought they should have never done it at all, so there were opinions of all kinds.
You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment and nobody else shows up and you think maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.
The way the world sees women vs. men is a subject that really interests me.
Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.
Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.
. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.
