Quotes About Subjectivity

Journalists do not write about human feelings.

Since I am me, I find it very difficult to judge how fascinating listening to my nasal, heavily-accented drone for two hours would be to somebody who wasn't me.

How can you judge one film against another?

Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.

I don't have a problem if someone else were to say that one of my characters is a good one and another one is not and is a bad one. I try myself not to have any judgment towards my characters, but certainly the audience might.

Juries are not computers. They are composed of human beings who evaluate evidence differently.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Nobody sees themselves as being an evil person or doing something for a bad reason. There's always something that justifies it to themselves.

There was a time when I thought Kim Novak was the sexiest woman in the world.

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

Perfection does not take into account the viewer.' Pheidias had once said to me. 'It exists on it own, independent of and unconcerned with opinions or utility.

Goor or evil, right or wrong, he mattered to me.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping something might improve if I viewed all sides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and be able use one's prejudice as an excuse.

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan -Thérèse Nyirabayovu

I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.

I've no idea if she's ugly or beautiful; it's kind of irrelevant. As long as it's her.

The reader, however, is warned not to be too sure that the author of any quotation had in mind the subject to which it is applied here.

The materialists, or some of them, would have us believe that the brain produces thoughts as an organ secretes fluids; this is to overlook What constitutes the very essence of thought, namely the materially unexplainable miracle of subjectivity: as if the cause of consciousness - immaterial and non-spatial by definition - could be a material object.

The character of faith resolves all tensions between objectivity and subjectivity, For faith has significance only in its orientation to its object - the grace of God.

Faith involves a certain subjectivity, ... a subjectivity which has meaning only as it is bound to the gospel.

Women are always passionately certain that they are right, and neither counsel nor entreaty can get them to believe that there can be any other side to a case than that which they take.

She was one of those women who are usually referred to in the past tense, of whom one says: 'She had a certain freshness and bloom about her,' and whose freshness and bloom passed unnoticed even when she still had them.