Quotes About Subjectivity

The secret of the charm of the lotus is that none can say wherin its beauty lies; for some say this, and some say that, but all agree that it is beautiful. And so indeed it is with woman.

It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.

This line of reasoning would seem to lead to the absurd conclusion that the world is filled with noises no one hears, colours no one sees, flavours no one tastes, textures no one feels, as well as a host of other sense experience we cannot even imagine. For there is no end in which creatures might possibly perceive the world.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

We all have foibles, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And the beholder oftentimes gets it wrong.

Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in the sky; and every one of them different.

eran como el traje que uno no tiene puesto; yo sé que el traje está en el ropero, pero a mi no vas a decirme que en este momento ese traje existe. El traje existe cuando me lo pongo.

After looking at myself in the mirror, I looked at Satsuko. I could not believe that we were creatures of the same species. The uglier the face in the mirror, the more extraordinarily beautiful Satsuko seemed. If that ugly face were only uglier, I thought regretfully, Satsuko would look even more beautiful.

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations.

As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that reveal immutable truths.

One person's data is another person's noise.

All measurement begins (and in the end, ends) with ourselves.

Memories are tricky; there's what you remember, and what you think you remember, the editions and redactions of memory, the corrections and amendations and blundered readings and the whole apparatus criticus of the conscious mind trying to make bread out of soup.

There is no absolute right or wrong, good or evil, but there are good manners and common decency.

Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

Ist der Pharao ein Gott, weil die Ägypter ihn als Gott verehren? Für sie mag er einer sein. Für euch nicht. Göttlichkeit liegt allein im Auge des Betrachters.

People aren't all brought up the same way, and they have different perspectives on what is right and wrong. That being the case, you can't assume anything about anyone without having some concrete basis to make a determination. - Raising A Strong Daughter: What Fathers Should Know by Finlay Gow JD and Kailin Gow MA

Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34]

Objectief' heeft voor velen de betekenis 'gunstig'. Een objectief boek over Zuid-Afrika of Rusland is een boek waarin over die landen geen kwaad gesproken wordt.

Later, the sisters would remember things differently, as sisters do, old grudges and misunderstandings refracting each memory, bending them in opposite directions.

I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.

You can't help but reveal your bias, and you can't but invest personally in any story that you tell.