Subject

Famous quotes containing the word subject:

“Gloucester. Is’t not the King?
Lear. Ay, every inch a king!
When I do stare, see how the subject quakes!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

“Biography, in its purer form, confined to the ended lives of the true and brave, may be held the fairest meed of human virtue—one given and received in entire disinterestedness—since neither can the biographer hope for acknowledgment from the subject, not the subject at all avail himself of the biographical distinction conferred.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)