“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.” IfsFeelsBelieveWellsMayPersonsSelfDoneCertainCausesSubjectsDangerousHeroStriveNotionMissionsPhilanthropyBehalfEgotismIrresponsibility Author:Charles Horton Cooley
“The notion that the Supreme Court comes up with the ruling and that automatically subjects the two other branches to following it defies everything there is about the three equal branches of government. The Supreme Court is not the supreme branch. And for God's sake, it isn't the Supreme Being. It is the Supreme Court.” TwoGovernmentThreeSubjectsEqualCourtNotionSakeCome UpFollowingSupremeBranchesSupreme CourtRulingSupreme BeingBranches Of Government Author:Mike Huckabee
“Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?” MeanDoeHas BeensSubjectsSeriousConceptsNotionPrivilegePursuitFree WillChocolateDevoted Author:Sandra Boynton
“The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty does not consist in the notion that a man may do whatever he pleases; liberty is the right to do whatsoever the laws allow. ... The equality of the citizens consists in that they should all be subject to the same laws.” MenShouldMayDoeLawPoliticalLibertySubjectsOughtCitizensPleaseSafetyNotionCivil RightsSecureFramed Author:Catherine the Great
“People are very good [at] thinking about agents. The mind is set really beautifully to think about agents. Agents have traits. Agents have behaviors. We understand agents. We form global impression of their personalities. We are really not very good at remembering sentences where the subject of the sentence is an abstract notion.” PeopleThinkingMindRememberFormSubjectsPersonalityBehaviorNotionVery GoodSentencesImpressionAgentsAbstractTraitsReally Beautiful Author:Daniel Kahneman
“As biological organisms made of matter, we are subject to the laws of physics and biology: as conscious persons who create our own history we are free to decide what that history shall be. Without science, we should have no notion of equality; without art, no notion of liberty.” ShouldPersonsArtMadeMatterLawLibertySubjectsConsciousShould HaveNotionPhysicsBiologyOrganismsLaws Of Physics Author:W. H. Auden
“In attempting to explain F For Fake's state-side failure, it has occurred to me that perhaps the subject matter was at least partially to blame, and that this country is so blissfully enslaved by the notion of the special sanctity of the expert that an overtly anti-expert film was bound to go too much against the national grain.” CountryMatterStatesFilmSidesToo MuchSpecialSubjectsBlameNotionBoundsFakeExpertsGrainAttemptingSubject MatterSanctity Author:Orson Welles
“Lettering is a precise art and strictly subject to tradition. The 'New Art ' notion that you can make letters whatever shapes you like,is as foolish as the notion, if anyone has such a notion, that you can make houses any shapes you like. You can't, unless you live all by yourself on a desert island.” IfsArtHouseSubjectsLike YouShapesTraditionLettersNotionFoolishDesertIslandsPrecise Author:Stanley Morison
“[I]f a man bred to the seafaring life, and accustomed to think and talk only of matters relating to navigation, enters into discourse upon any other subject; it is well known, that the language and the notions proper to his own profession are infused into every subject, and all things are measured by the rules of navigation: and if he should take it into his head to philosophize concerning the faculties of the mind, it cannot be doubted, but he would draw his notions from the fabric of the ship, and would find in the mind, sails, masts, rudder, and compass.” IfsThinkingMenShouldMindWellsMatterLanguageKnownSubjectsDrawsAll ThingsNotionProfessionShipsFacultyFabricSailDiscourseWell KnownAccustomedCompassDoubtedNavigationRuddersMasts Author:Thomas Reid
“The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly. Take a photographer like Mapplethorpe. Every single photograph of his is about classical notions of beauty, of young beautiful black men, young beautiful women, and he selects subjects who are essentially interesting and good-looking and extremely physical. I can't stand them.” MenI CanAgeBeautifulYoungCultureBlackInterestingViewsSubjectsNotionPhotographerPhotographUglyPrincipalLooking GoodBeautiful Women Book:A Body Source: A Body
“Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.” WayGivingArtFictionTechnologySubjectsCreatingNotionAuthenticityOriginalityFrankQuotationsRepetitionAccumulationAuras Book:On the Museum's Ruins Source: On the Museum's Ruins