Quotes About Subjectivity

In other words, after the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.

En otras palabras, después de las leyes de la física, lo demás es una opinión.

To me, he was saying that our reality is shaped by our perceptions. That something is good or bad only because we- you and I- believe it to be so, based on our own experiences.

Some might dispute the facts, but memories aren't always about facts.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.

All my favorite movies are somebody else's least favorite movie.

When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

For 'Frost/Nixon,' I had eight people who were present at those interviews - they were all in the room - and when I interviewed each of them, they had a totally different narrative of events, to the degree where you thought, 'Were you all really in the same room?'

Do we really want the truth, or do we want a truth that fits our narrative?

Persons in their most developed form are conscious, reflexive, embodied, self-transcending centers of subjective experience, durable identity, moral commitment, and social communication who—as the efficient cause of their own responsible actions and interactions—exercise complex capacities for agency and inter-subjectivity in order to sustain their own incommunicable selves in loving relationships with other personal selves and with the non-personal world.

How we remember and what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object

Historian and psychoanalyst are experienced in the discovery of things done in the past. They know how to find hidden details, but once they are brought into the light of day, these details, although of course subject to interpretation, are too polysemous to stay in any one subjectivity's perspective. The discoveries – when true ones – displace the finder.

But sometimes you just resent being told what to like.

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

Since I became a novelist I have discovered that I am biased. Either I think a new novel is worse than mine and I don't like it, or I suspect it is better than my novels and I don't like it.

Toda imagen estética está superada por las imágenes posibles que suscita, que abre. Sin embargo, no podría manifestarse ningún desvarío, porque la experiencia tiene lugar sobre y en el objeto.

Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise.

Affected as they are by a constitutive solipsism, philosophies can say everything about the world they design and very little about the world they help to construct.

Desgraciadamente, «posmoderno» es un término que sirve para cualquier cosa. Tengo la impresión de que hoy se aplica a todo lo que le gusta a quien lo utiliza. Por