Quotes About Subjectivity

Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist's hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed.

the only thing these facts clearly show is that people tend to see what they want to see.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Every person is a fool in somebody's opinion.

I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.

How is it that two people can be in the same relationship and still have completely different ideas of what's going on?

Time is only a state of mind, so being late is only a thought one can posess.

the living world—this ambiguous realm that we experience in anger and joy, in grief and in love—is both the soil in which all our sciences are rooted and the rich humus into which their results ultimately return, whether as nutrients or as poisons. Our spontaneous experience of the world, charged with subjective, emotional, and intuitive content, remains the vital and dark ground of all our objectivity.

Svako pamti na svoj na?in, svako živi sam u svom svetu, svako misli da je on onaj misle?i subjekat koji nam svojim postojanjem omogu?ava da uživamo u onome što vidimo kao stvarnost sveta.

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event, there will be ten - or a hundred - different versions of what took place.

We inhabit two universes, then, One is the universe inside our skulls - our viewpoint universe, as it were.

Everything is relative." The man didn't move a muscle as he spoke. "A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains.

and Bobette Duck. Unbelievable. Might as well be called Stinky and Butt-Ugly.

Moral Skepticism is the idea that there is no such thing as objective moral truth.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

When people start talking about enjambment and line endings, I always shut them up. This is not something to talk about, this is a private matter, it's up to the poet.

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

If you interview five people about the same incident, and you see five different points of view, it makes you know what makes history so complicated. Something doesn't just occur. It's not like a scientific event. It's a human event.

I read this over today, for the first time since I wrote it. It's full of nostalgia, every word loaded with it, although at the time I wrote it I thought I was being 'objective.' Nostalgia for what? I don't know. Because I'd rather die than have to live through any of that again. And the 'Anna' of that time is like an enemy, or like an old friend one has known too well and doesn't want to see.

To complain that man measures God by his own experience is a waste of time; man measures everything by his own experience; he has no other yardstick.

so interesting and a really remarkable face, though perhaps not strictly good-looking, and all the more interesting for that, because good-looking people are so often cows.

My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself. Hang on, can I write this down? said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil.