Quotes About Subjectivity

the horse looks, but how beautiful it feels to him.

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing-- what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

But what came easily to Homer (and to Xenophon, in prose) was no longer easily available to the moderns, who introduced the presence of the representing subject into representation itself (Byron being a prime example in the Zibaldone).

une interprétation n'est elle pas assujettie aux émotions de son auteur et à la connaissance ou non du sujet qu'il interprète?

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

There is never only one Truth. There is only one truth at a time.

The friend is not another I, but an otherness immanent in selfness, a becoming other of the self. At the point at which I perceive my existence as pleasant, my perception is traversed by a concurrent perception that dislocates it and deports it towards the friend, towards the other self. Friendship is this desubjectivization at the very heart of the most intimate perception of self.

Evil is relative…You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.

The perceptions and pronouncements of human beings are inherently subjective. Every news article is the product of all sorts of highly subjective cultural, nationalistic, and political assumptions. And all journalism serves one faction's interest or another's. The

3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115).

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.

Historians must, of course, present both sides of the argument, but they do not have to be neutral. I hope that I have treated the facts, as far as they can be determined with accuracy, as sacred, but I cannot hide my conviction

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious.

Art is art, even when unsuccessful.

Art is never didactic, does not take kindly to facts, is helpless to grapple with theories, and is killed outright by a sermon.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience. The metaphysician reasons from theory to facts, the scientist reasons from facts to theory. The metaphysician explains the universe by himself, the scientist explains himself by the universe.

Each of you dwells in a cosmos of his own making, created out of his own fancies and desires. You do not know the real world in which you live

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them

We become more and more aware that what we think about the world is not what the world is but what the human animal sees of the world.

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?" "I don't know, my lady," I murmured. "I suppose it depends on who is telling the tale.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.