Quotes About Subjectivity

Understanding is a three edged sword: your side, their side, and the truth.

In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it

There is no 'the truth, ' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

At last, in those far-off deserts, I finally knew that the observer is part of his subject: and I understood that there could be no definitive Lawrence, but only an infinite number of Lawrentian images, like crystals in the eyes of his beholders. What I discovered was my Lawrence and my truth, for 'truth' is of more than one kind: the kind which remains static, and the kind which bends and shifts according to the individual and the time.

Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.

Monster' is a relative term; to a canary, a cat is a monster. We're just used to being the cat.

Como bien sabes, una cosa puede ser precisa o imprecisa, independientemente de tus opiniones.

Inevitably, you react to your own work—you like it, you don't like it, you think it's interesting or boring—and it is difficult to accept that those reactions may be unreliable. In my experience, they are. I mistrust either wild enthusiasm or deep depression. I have had the best success with material that I was sort of neutral about …

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Truth lies in the hands of its editor.

In the end, it was only a few months that passed this way, and yet it was the longest period of time that Momo had ever lived through. Time can't simply be measured with a clock and a calendar, just as words alone can't describe the kind of loneliness Momo knew in these months.

Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. One plus one can add up to so many different sums

In the final analysis, I learned that there is no such thing as the correct answers; it is only perspective

There was, for starters, the tendency of everyone who actually played the game to generalize wildly from his own experience. People always thought their own experience was typical when it wasn't.

There will no longer be truth and falsehood. There will just be stories, with two sides to them.

when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.

He spoke of how viewers of his films should not assume they understood everything about the characters. As members of an audience we should never feel ourselves wiser than they; we do not have more knowledge than the characters have about themselves. We should not feel assured or certain about their motives, or look down on them. I believe this. I recognize this as a first principle of art, although I have the suspicion that many would not.

There's no trustworthy recording of ages when seen through the eyes of youth

Personal Knowledge. The two words may seem to contradict each other: for true knowledge is deemed impersonal, universally established, objective. But the seeming contradiction is resolved by modifying the conception of knowing.

Weed" is not a category of nature but a human construct, a defect of our perception.

Humboldt believed it is only with our feelings, our senses, and our imaginations—that is, with the faculties of human subjectivity—that we can ever penetrate nature's secrets. "Nature everywhere speaks to man in a voice" that is "familiar to his soul.

Carhart-Harris suspects that the loss of a clear distinction between subject and object might help explain another feature of the mystical experience: the fact that the insights it sponsors are felt to be objectively true—revealed truths rather than plain old insights. It could be that in order to judge an insight as merely subjective, one person's opinion, you must first have a sense of subjectivity. Which is precisely what the mystic on psychedelics has lost.

We divide the world into subjects and objects, and here in the garden, as in nature generally, we humans are the subjects.

We were in the same band, but we're two completely different people. People have asked me to make comparisons with our albums, and I can't, because there's no comparison. Her album's okay. I don't think she's the best singer on Earth, but she's okay.