Quotes About Subjectivity

Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

There is no purity in art.

phenomenological

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

Reality exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience. However, once related, even personal experience becomes a narrative.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

But I totally understood that what filled us with energy could be irritating to someone else,

We do not see things the way they are, we see them as we are. —ANAÏS NIN

We do not see things the way they are, we see them as we are.

whether you agree with it or not. The truth is not subject to your interpretation.

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be

However, memories—unlike reality—aren't fixed. With every recollection, we reshape what we saw. Our memories of an event are influenced by how we want a situation to be, how we perceive our role in it, what people tell us, and even by what we hear or read about what took place. After a while, our brains can't distinguish between reality and our reconstruction of reality.

As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.

You'll Never See It My Way, Because You're Not Me!

The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy tales' concern is not useful information about the external world, but the inner process taking place in an individual.

But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world - by a teacher, a writer, anyone - is a judgement. The judgement that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.

But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.

So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.

The only thing we're concerned about is what's right for us. We got our own definition of "right.

With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a contradiction in terms.