Quotes About Subjectivity

Poetry isn't math was our battle cry

There are very few good judges of comedy. The rest of us are guessing.

Two things are not debatable: eroticism, and comedy. If you don't think it's sexy, or funny, there's no way I can change your mind.

There is no such thing as genuine truth, only received truth.

Irene generally disliked debating philosophy or being told that answers were true 'from a certain point of view'.

I'm not so good at interpreting poetry. When I read a poem, I respond to it in one of two ways: "Wow, this is great!" or "God, this is awful!" I have no other responses.

Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an 'impression', intensely subjective and evanescent.

An imagined pleasure is never really the pleasure, but an imagined pain, in a very real sense, is the pain, because so much of pain is the consciousness of it. It makes itself objective. Whereas to think about pleasure is to step outside of it; to think about a presently felt pain is to step inside it. And in a very real sense, we've already got them in Hell.

One man's poison ivy is another fellow's spinach.

One man's poison ivy,is another man's spinach.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

When he puts a thing on a pedestal and calls it beautiful, he demands the same delight from others. He judges not merely for himself, but for all men, and then speaks of beauty as if it were the property of things.

what things may be in themselves, I know not, and need not know because a thing is never presented to me otherwise than as a phenomena.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am but only as I appear to myself. The consciousness of oneself is therefore very far from being a knowledge of oneself.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Vemos las cosas, no como son, sino como somos nosotros (Kant)

are—and yet refer to something permanent, which must, therefore, be distinct from all my representations and external to me, the existence

We know nothing but our manner of perceiving [objects], a manner which is peculiar to us, and not necessarily shared by every being, even though it must be shared by every human being.

iI Tempo non è altro che la forma dell'intuizione di noi stessi e del nostro stato interno

Good art shows us how difficult it is to be objective by showing us how differently the world looks to an objective vision.

You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head. Well, I live in my head.

When I am told that a person is happy,' said Nick, 'I know that he is not. Of really happy people this is never said.

The painter copies this bed from one point of view. He is thus at three removes from reality. He does not understand the bed, he does not measure it, he could not make it.

rabbit hole of relativism.

We all see what we want to see.