Quotes About Subjectivity

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

A photographer's reality is what he or she wants to show.

That's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for everyone.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

Robotic correctness is the last thing judges want to see or hear

When people praise a poem that I can't understand I always think they're lying.

People always talk about unreli­able narrators and, to tell you the truth, I think that's a redundant term. I think 'narrator' inheres unreliability, because even if we don't mean to lie, we're still selecting this event instead of that event to talk about, and that's a form of omission. Anyone who narrates a story, or narrates anything, is always giving you their version, and their version always has a slant to it.

A thousand truck-stop T-shirts can't be wrong.

Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

Soy lo que quieras ver. Cada persona ve algo diferente. ¿Qué es lo que ves tú?

The subconscious mind is nothing but an energy field or mental level that resonates in line with the universal subjectivity.

The right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else. So...good luck figuring that out.

There is no sin in the realm of taste.

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

It's easy to consider everyone a sucker who cares about things you don't care about. So who does that make the sucker?

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

In 'Who's Who,' my hobbies are listed as eating, sleeping, and voicing one's opinion. Not necessarily the right opinion, but it's mine.

When you write a book, and you argue a problem is complicated and multidimensional, it's very easy to read a slice of that book and say, 'Well, this is the part that either confirms or really challenges my biases, so that's what I'm going to say the entire book is about.'

I don't look at comedy as a sliding scale of offensiveness.

I make my songs slightly abstract so that people can interpret them their own way. I think that's a lot more special, so you can hear a song and think, 'I feel exactly that way,' even if it wasn't written for that feeling.

I've been criticised for pretty, smiley photographs, but at least someone is happy! In my mind, I am always giving the image to the sitter.

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

Nature does in fact teem with subjectivities — call them spirits if you like — other than our own; it is only the human ego, with its imagined monopoly on subjectivity, that keeps us from recognizing them all, our kith and kin.

the second possible explanation for the noetic sense: when our sense of a subjective "I" disintegrates, as it often does in a high-dose psychedelic experience (as well as in meditation by experienced meditators), it becomes impossible to distinguish between what is subjectively and objectively true. What's left to do the doubting if not your I?