Quotes About Subjectivity

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.

I don't believe that films can be compared to each other as each one is a work of art and deserves appreciation on its own merits.

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

Jessica Alba's very beautiful; so is Sienna Miller.

As a writer, I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.

If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in the person's mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

People don't know major and minor chords; they know what they like. I feel the same way.

Different: no guilty party exists in the narrative (unless you count the author, who is present everywhere and nowhere).

We must recognize that our view of the world is just that - a view that has been shaped by our own vantage point, history, and idiosyncratic knowledge.

We tend to resolve our perplexity arising out of the experience that other people see the world differently than we see it ourselves by declaring that these others, in consequence of some basic intellectual and moral defect, are unable to see things "as they really are" and to react to them "in a normal way." We thus imply, of course, that things are in fact as we see them, and that our ways are the normal ways. (Ichheiser, 1949, p. 39)

In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.

Beauty to her, as to all who have felt, lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

A woman may be treated with a bitterness which is sweet to her, and with a rudeness which is not offensive.

There is no murder. We make murder, and it matters only to us.

The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to credit your own opinion.

We come out of darkness and return to darkness, with some experiences in between. But we don't experience the beginning and the end, birth and death. We are not subjectively aware of them, they exist only in the world of objective events—and that's that.

But the beginning and the end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely n the category of objective events, and that's that.

Le temps n'a aucune réalité. Lorsqu'il vous paraît long, il est long, et lorsqu'il vous paraît court, il est court, mais de quelle longueur ou de quelle brièveté, c'est ce que personne ne sait.

I had never had an adequate notion of what Christians meant by God. I had simply taken it for granted that the God in Whom religious people believed, and to Whom they attributed the creation and government of all things, was a noisy and dramatic and passionate character, a vague, jealous, hidden being, the objectification of all their own desires and strivings and subjective ideals.