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Quotes About Subjectivity

Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not.
~ Protagoras
Every man's world picture is and always remains a construct of his mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
~ William E. Gladstone
In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.
~ Jacques Lacan
Man is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates itself to itself.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The assertion that men are objectively equal is so absurd that it does not even merit being refuted.
~ Vilfredo Pareto
There is a camera is between a man and a woman.
~ Nobuyoshi Araki
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.
~ Eavan Boland
One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.
~ Plutarch
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
~ Francoise Sagan
I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.
~ Will Durant
So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
~ Martin Buber
Man does not see reality as it is, but only as he perceives it, and his perception may be mistaken or biased.
~ Rudolf Dreikurs
It is not important whether or not the interpretation is correct — if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
~ W. I. Thomas
One man's constant is another man's variable.
~ Alan Perlis
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.
~ Remy de Gourmont
the usual academician's ace in the hole: everything is relative, it's all just differing perspectives.
~ Neal Stephenson
Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth, because everyone is creating what they see.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
right" is a term you use to designate something with which you agree. What you've missed will, therefore, appear at first to be "wrong.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
In truth, there is nothing evil, only objective phenomena and experience.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Nothing has any meaning save the meaning you give it.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Rightness" or "wrongness" is not an intrinsic condition, it is a subjective judgment in a personal value system. By your subjective judgments do you create your Self—by your personal values do you determine and demonstrate Who You Are.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Bak?? aç?s? alg?y? yarat?r, alg? deneyimi yarat?r. Bu alg?n?n deneyimi senin "gerçeÄŸini" yarat?r. GerçeÄŸin, bizzat deneyimlediÄŸindir. BaÅŸka her ÅŸey baÅŸkas?n?n deneyimleri ve sana söyledikleridir. Onlar?n seninle hiçbir ilgisi yoktur.
~ Neale Donald Walsch