Quotes About Subjectivity

The stone is not what I say it is. It's what you see in it.

The problem with history is that every story has multiple witnesses, but no witness ever has the entire truth.

One man's frankness is another man's vulgarity.

Only someone who doesn't understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can't be graded, because it's going to mean something different to everyone. You can't apply a mathematical absolute to art because there is no one formula for self-expression.

It already felt a lifetime ago, prison years being like dog years.

Villains are always the hero in their own story. Villains always have a reason for what villainy they get up to.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

They're true, aren't they? (Lorelei) I guess it depends on whom you ask. What I've learned over the years is that truth is never so easy. And every person sees a different reality. (Jack)

If an observer can only make sense of the "reality" through different idiosyncratic lenses, this forces us to rethink our notion of objectivity.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

What you remember... is not what they think you will remember, it is often not

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

I would like to make it very plain that these are learnings which have significance for me. I do not know whether they would hold true for you. I have no desire to present them as a guide for anyone else. Yet I have found that when another person has been willing to tell me something of his inner directions this has been of value to me, if only in sharpening my realization that my directions are different.

a scientific endeavor can never transcend itself to select new goals. Only subjective human persons can do that. Thus if we chose as our goal the state of happiness for human beings (a goal deservedly ridiculed by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World), and if we involved all of society in a successful scientific program by which people became happy, we would be locked in a colossal rigidity in which no one would be free to question this goal,

Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.

If I am hungry,reality is nothing more to me than an ensemble of more or less edible things. If I am thirsty, reality is more or less liquid, and more or less potable. If I am sleepy, it is a great bed more or less hard.If I am not hungry, not thirsty, not sleepy, and do not need any other determinate thing, the world is a large ensemble of grays that are I don't know what but that certainly are not made to cheer me up.

The world is like a collection of interrelated points of view.

The first is that every one of us identifies with a point of view in the world.

Why do we remember the past and not the future? Do we exist in time, or does time exist in us? What does it really mean to say that time "passes"? What ties time to our nature as persons, to our subjectivity? What am I listening to when I listen to the passing of time?

Si usted ha creído verlo es que ha pasado. No todos vemos las mismas cosas.

Time has this way of slowing down and speeding up,depending on how it feels.

and thus they selectively remember parts of their life, focusing on those parts that support their own points of view.