Quotes About Subjectivity

The Devil's Dictionary, the mind has nothing but itself to know itself with, and it may never feel satisfied that it understands the deepest aspect of its own existence, its intrinsic subjectivity.

Love is a broken vase whose shape everyone remembers differently.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn't.

Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

Those who do not know what love is liken it to beauty. Those who claim to know what love is liken it to ugliness.

What is beauty? It's what you love.

People familiar with the working of courtrooms know that truth and justice are only in the eye of the beholder. The best lawyers know that their job is only to convince that beholder of their version.

sometimes, when things are not going well, it's not the world that's the cause. The cause is instead that which is currently most valued, subjectively and personally.

En estado natural, por decirlo de algún modo, a los seres humanos no les gusta pensar como lógicos, ni siquiera como empiristas. Hace falta entrenamiento para pensar así. Pero aun en ausencia de ese entrenamiento, seguimos pensando, aunque lo hacemos de manera más subjetiva, como seres -poco razonables-, idiosincráticos, emocionales que habitan unos cuerpos de tamaño determinado, con unas propiedades particulares y constreñidas.

Although all those who fall in love do so in the same way, not all fall in love for the same reason. There is no single quality which is universally loved.

Ultimately nature and events are largely what our imaginations make them out to be.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Never think you speak for all of yourself.

We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are.

it is unfair to characterize the work of postmodernists as "bad writing," despite the fact that a lot of it is actually bad writing.

Your conscious experiences are personal. They are yours, and could not exist without you. And a major fact that makes them personal is that they are experienced and interpreted through the lens of your memories. Conscious experiences, including experiences of fear and anxiety, are colored by memory.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

Coronel defendía también su preferencia por las feas diciendo que cuánta belleza debía haber en una mujer fea, cuando, a pesar de ser fea nos atraía,

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness. In fact, he creates new appearances of things.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.