“There are no subjects in the world. A subject is a limitation of the world.”

“In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.”

“There were people in the world for whom the world and its people were subjects on which to cast spells.”

“We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.”

“To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.”

“The philosophical I is not the man, not the human body or the human soul of which psychology treats, but the metaphysical subject, the limit -not a part of the world.[...]If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.”