Famous quotes containing the words subject, matter and/or domain:
“The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they believe in the superficiality of existence as in its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this “truth,” a most welcome veil over a pudendum—and so a matter of decency and modesty, and nothing else.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“In the domain of art there is no light without heat.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)