“The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.” ArtMadeMatterAbilitySubjectsIdentityOriginalsComposerTransformedHarmoniousExhibitsSubject MatterProfilePrerequisitesConjunctionsInvertedRetrograde Author:Glenn Gould
“All of us need an identity which unites us with our neighbours, our countrymen, those people who are subject to the same rules and the same laws as us, those people with whom we might one day have to fight side by side to protect our inheritance, those people with whom we will suffer when attacked, those people whose destinies are in some way tied up with our own.” PeopleWayNeedsMightLawSufferingFightingSidesDestinySubjectsIdentityOne DayProtectTiedInheritanceNeighbourCountrymenTied Up Author:Roger Scruton
“Subjects who reciprocally recognize each other as such, must consider each other as identical, insofar as they both take up the position of subject; they must at all times subsume themselves and the other under the same category. At the same time, the relation of reciprocity of recognition demands the non-identity of one and the other, both must also maintain their absolute difference, for to be a subject implies the claim of individuation.” DifferencesSubjectsIdentityPositionDemandClaimsRelationAbsolutesAll TimeRecognitionCategoriesIdenticalReciprocityIndividuation Author:Jurgen Habermas
“After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.” SoulSelfWould BeSpiritualConsciousnessSubjectsIdentityPersonalityRemainsAfter DeathSelf ConsciousnessPersonal IdentitySpiritual Death Book:Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)
“In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored. All the great creators have foreseen this turning-point. Today, in the depths of culture itself and in all its separate spheres, this crisis of creativity is ripening.” WayTodayCultureFoundCreativitySubjectsIdentityObjectsCrisisDepthCreatorSpheresTurning PointsForeseenRipening Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.” MindWellsHas BeensIdeasReasonPerfectSubjectsIdentityObjectsReturnConceptsAbsolutesNegativityAlienationPremisesIdenticalObjectivityPrius Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel