Quotes About Subjectivity

What's the meaning of life?" Cole tried. "There is no inherent meaning," Aero replied. "All significance is constructed.

This in turn has led to the awful idea—and booming business—of reputation management, where firms are hired to help shape a more likable, relatable You. Devoted to gaming the system, this new practice is a form of deception, an attempt to erase (strangely) both subjectivity and objectivity, to evaluate through mass intuition, for a very high price.

Feelings aren't facts and opinions aren't crimes

Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we're unwilling to question.

The most extreme of those who hold this opinion would go as far as declaring that, indeed, when no one and no thing is "looking" at or interacting with the moon in any way, it is not there.

There is no reality -- only our own order imposed on everything.

A man is never ugly.

There's nothing worse in the world than a poetry recital.

All colours are arbitrary.

There is child abuse, and there are such things as repressed memories. But there are also such things as false memories and confabulations, and they are not rare at all. Misrememberings are the rule, not the exception. They occur all the time. They occur even in cases where the subject is absolutely confident - even when the memory is a seemingly unforgettable flashbulb, one of those metaphorical mental photographs.

Why youth seems to be my only requisite for beauty now is beyond me.

There is no objective scale by which to measure truth when that truth is not written down.

Evil may be 'unscientific' but so is a song or a smile.

It may well be that a liking for bananas is a merely private matter, though this is in fact questionable.

You can enjoy books you do not admire and admire books you do not enjoy.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

So are you happy? he asks. I hate it when anyone asks me that. It's such a loaded fucking question. Are they talking aggregate years? Doesn't it depend on the day, the moment? Or are they referring to last year or last month?

There are no maps. You can't map a sense of humor.

In a certain light and from a carefully chosen angle, Magrat was not unattractive.

Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on something solid. At ten thousand feet up, the eye of the beholder tends to water.

the truth is a fog, in which one man sees the heavenly host and the other one sees a flying elephant.

How could they judge him, these people, all or any one of them, even his own mother, when they did not know what his own mental, physical and spiritual suffering had been? And

Si jamais quelqu'un était capable de retracer exactement ce qu'il voit et ressent en faisant seulement dix mètres dans la rue, nous obtiendrions une image si déformée, si obscure, tellement subjective qu'il est difficile de s'en faire une idée, même vague. Et personne ne regarde jamais autour de soi avec attention, jusqu'au moment où il vient ici.

Art is not journalism. In art, you don't make it to convey a message.