Quotes About Subjectivity

I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

I think everybody has to kind of decide what the word 'jazz' means to them, and that's fine.

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

You can laugh at anything. It depends on the joke.

There's things that I couldn't joke about but other people could.

They're just jokes, people. They can't all be funny.

Betty White jokes are just not for me.

man's sense is falsely asserted to be the standard of things; on the contrary, all the perceptions both of the senses and the mind bear reference to man and not to the Universe, and the human mind resembles these uneven mirrors which impart their own properties to different objects, from which rays are emitted and distort and disfigure them.

no man is a good judge in his own case.

When morality is reduced to personal tastes, people exchange the moral question, What is good? for the pleasure question, What feels good?

One day I was showing the sea to a girl who was seeing it for the first time; she declared that she thought a field of potatoes was a far more impressive sight.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Hamlet is a course and barbarous play. One might think the work is the product of a drunken savage's imagination.

We live in a hell of opinions.

so try as you will you cannot make me feel embarrassment at what I find beautiful.

I look at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

I stop there, for who can tell me what beauty is?

I never wish to be easily defined. I'd rather float over other people's minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

We fixate on what is relevant to us, and we see what we want to see.

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The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

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