“On the one hand it is said that the aim and object of music is to excite emotions, i.e., pleasurable emotions; on the other hand, the emotions are said to be the subject matter which musical works are intended to illustrate. Both propositions are alike in this, that one is as false as the other.” SaidMatterHandsEmotionSubjectsObjectsMusic IsAimMusicalPropositionsSubject Matter Author:Eduard Hanslick
“Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.” IfsKnowsMayTalkingKnowledgeSubjectsEffectsPureMathematicsDefinedPropositionsAssertionTrue Knowledge Author:Bertrand Russell
“It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.” MenDoeActionSubjectsDirectBlowStrikesMeatStrokesPropositionsPenetrateMarrow Author:Orison S. Marden