Quotes About Subjectivity

To show how memory changes to fit our story, psychologists study how memories evolve over time: if your memories of the same people change, becoming positive or negative spending on what is happening in your life now, then it's all about you, not them. This process happens so gradually that it can be a jolt to realize you ever felt differently.

I gave her as much as I had, but it's like the difference between a movie and a book: A book lets you choose how much blood you want to see. A book gives you permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs. You interpret.

Guac is guac and while sometimes it's slimy and disgusting, it's never delicious.

There isn't a definite right and wrong anyway. Sometimes we do what seems wrong, but we have good reasons for doing it, so it's not wrong after all.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

So it was that I justified my morals and ethics. Everything became relative.

To the Austrian economics of subjectivity, time provides an objective foundation.

Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass.

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

In art there is only one thing that counts; the thing you can't explain.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see--and I don't.

To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

Man is the measure of all things.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

Time is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Three Spaniards, four opinions.

Happiness is ... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.