Quotes About Subjectivity

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

One man's meat is another's poison.

What one man does, another fails to do; what's fit for me may not be fit for you.

Almost all important questions are important precisely because they are not susceptible to quantitative answer.

We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

It is a purely relative matter where one draws the plimsoll-line of condemnation, and ... if you find the whole of humanity falls below it you have simply made a mistake and drawn it too high. And you are probably below it yourself.

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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

Ladies and gentlemen, you can't please everyone. Take my girlfriend - I think she's the most remarkable woman in the world. . . . That's me . . . But to my wife . . .

The artist doesn't see things as they are, but as he is.

And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.

For in art there is no such thing as a universal truth.

Jews refuse to apply Kant's categorical imperative and be limited by universal rules. We might attempt a definition of a Jew as someone unable to make an objective moral judgement. His arguments will forever vary according to whether the subject is good for Jews or bad for Jews. WMD are bad in gentile hands but good in Jewish ones. Gentile nationalism is bad, devotion to the Jewish cause is good. Equal rights for Jews and non-Jews is good in Europe but bad in Palestine.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry us while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

The media's no more objective than the last ratings term.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Bad deeds like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder.

reality wasn't interested in anybody's opinion.

Like pornography, postmodernism is hard to define but easy to spot.

His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

I like it because its ugly