Quotes About Subjectivity

Another weakness found in altogether too many people is the habit of measuring everything, and everyone, by their own impressions and beliefs.

You may prefer apples to oranges, oranges to pears, but pears to apples—it depends on how the choices are presented to you. The

I can find confirmation for just about anything, the

These may seem irrational to an outsider who defines rationality in terms of what he can explain.

There is no absolute measure of good or bad. It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it.

Men feel the good less intensely than the bad

Even from an anatomical perspective, it is impossible for our brain to see anything in raw form without some interpretation. We may not even always be conscious of it.

I write only if I feel like it and only on a subject I feel like writing about - and the reader is no fool. So I use procrastination as a message from my inner self and my deep evolutionary past to resist interventionism in my writing.Yet some psychologists and behavioral economists seem to think that procrastination is a disease to be remedied and cured.

Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.

No me pareces espantoso.Es simplemente que no hay modo de medirte. Es como contemplar un Picasso y tratar de decidir si la mujer del cuardo es guapa o fea. Uno no lo sabe, pero no puede dejar de mirarla. -Me ves como una obra de arte. Eso me parece bien. -Sí, bueno... pero nunca me ha gustado Picasso.

Yes, yes, but you have to remember people take from a situation the thing that they need.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

In a perfect world everything would be either black or white, right or wrong, and everyone would know the difference. But it isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is.

Medicine, psychology, criminology, sociology. Which treat bodies as machinery (passim Descartes, the "father" of our Western subject). Developing alongside the dirty sciences. Industrialization, Taylorization, automation.

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

Hell was what you made it.

There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one's god module is overactive at the time.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience—it just depends on which one's god module is overactive at the time.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

The pretty girl is always right.

In a Google world, meaning and ontology are entirely in the eyes and minds of the beholder. One thing can be many different things to many different people.

Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.