Quotes About Subjectivity

Just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life -- or even an okay life -- to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.

reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one's attitude. Of

I'm not making a problem out of a personal question; I make of a personal question an absence of a problem.

A real subjection is born mechanically from a fictitious relation [...] He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribed in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection.

The man described for us, whom we are invited to free, is already in himself the effect of a subjection much more profound than himself. A 'soul' inhabits him and brings him to existence...the soul is the effect and instrument of political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

Religion for them [Iranians] was like a promise and guarantee of finding something that would radically change their subjectivity

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.

Tu opinión no es más que tu punto de vista, y no tiene por qué ser necesariamente verdad.

All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

Your opinion is nothing but your point of view. It is not necessarily true. Your opinion comes from your beliefs, your own ego, and your own dream.

Far as I can see, we mostly exist as *ideas* in each other's heads. The way *you* see me. The way my *boss* sees me. The way the *waitress* at Lindy's sees me.

For the spectator does not see space, he sees the objects and events; he does not perceive the coordinates with the same cyclopean eye of the camera. With his entire body, desires, and fantasies, he perceives the existential dimensions by which the world is organized.

A person finds it distasteful to hear his life recounted with a different interpretation from his own.

Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh sound of the outside world just as the sensitive soul stands against the insensibility of the universe.

Looked at from the outside, I haven't experienced anything. Looked at from the outside! But I have a feeling that my experience inside is worth writing about and could be interesting to everybody.

There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

There are some movies that I absolutely hate but someone else loves - people love things for different reasons.

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

When I'm in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don't really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

Two young, fit, healthy attractive people in love? There's nothing worse to look at in the world.

What really happened doesn't matter. What matters is how we agree to remember it.

es posible que el amor sea totalmente objetivo, o totalmente subjetivo?