Quotes About Subjectivity

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

It is precisely the most subjective ideas which, being closest to nature and to the living being, deserve to be called the truest.

Indeed, we must never forget that for us outer reality exists only in so far as we perceive it consciously, and that we cannot prove that it exists "in and by itself.

another common peculiarity of hysterics, namely, that of taking everything personally, of never being able to remain objective, and of allowing themselves to be carried away by momentary impressions; this again shows the characteristics of the enhanced object-libido.

Le livre sur les types apporta la connaissance que tout jugement d'un homme est limité par son type personnel et que chaque façon de voir est relative. (p. 332)

PopadÅ'bym w znany bÅ'Ä…d autobiografów, który polega na tym, ?e albo snujÄ… iluzje, jak to by? powinno, albo kreÅ›lÄ… jakÄ…Å› apologia pro vita sua. A przecie? czÅ'owiek jest zdarzeniem, nie mo?e oceni? samego siebie, lecz raczej - for better or worse - podlega osÄ…dowi innych.

For that matter, does a thing or a fact ever mean anything in and of itself? We can only be sure that it is always the human being who interprets, that is, gives meaning to a fact. And that is the gist of the matter for psychology.

Aún cuando algunos padezcan problemas idénticos a los míos, nadie tendrá los mismos sueños que yo.

I cannot employ the language of science to trace this process of growth in myself, for I cannot experience myself as a scientific problem.

What defines a perfect photo is entirely up to you. Otherwise, this wouldn't be an art. It would be just another commodity, subject to a checklist written long ago. There is no checklist. Be wary of anyone trying to sell you access to one.

Great photography is about depth of feeling, not depth of field." — Peter Adams

Sometimes he wondered if most people experienced the world around them a little bit differently from their fellows, if the assumption of commonality was simply an illusion.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Cada um sabe a dor e a delícia de ser o que é...

The same outer object may suggest either of many realities formerly associated with it—for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of differing companions. William James, The Principles of Psychology

Mientras una parte de lo que percibimos penetra a través de nuestros sentidos a partir del objeto que tenemos ante nosotros, otra parte (y tal vez ésta sea la mayor) surge siempre de nuestra propia mente. William James Principios de psicología

Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind. William James, The Principles of Psychology

you cannot objectify the subjective; you cannot generalize the specific.

If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

Everything is true in some sense, false in some sense, and meaningless in another sense.

The New Testament vision of the kingdom of God is no plunge into existential subjectivity, no phantasmagoric anti-intellectual experience, nor is it like being "turned on" by LSD even though ventured, as Timothy Leary would have it, as a sacred rite.

A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.

We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

Gerald Foos's explanation in his journal--he was 'only an observer and not a reporter,' and he 'really didn't exist as far as the male and female subjects were concerned'--were explanations that didn't surprise me because of his often-expressed notion that he was a fractured individual, a hybridized combination of the Voyeur and Gerald Foos