Quotes About Subjectivity

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

While men define themselves by deeds, women simply "are" beauty, grace, faith and goodness. Men tend to be rational and objective, women subjective, intuitive and emotional.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

I believe there's no such thing as overreacting; it's just that what someone is reacting to may no longer be what's in front of them.

Objectively" Stan was 100 percent right. At the same time, however, he was 100 percent tin-eared when it came to his wife's subjective experience. Worse, every time Lucy tried to tell him what bothered her, every time she tried to bridge the gap between them, Stan only retreated more staunchly into his precious rightness.

There is no place for objective reality in personal relationships. Objective reality is great for getting trains to run on time or for developing an important vaccine, but for ferreting out which point of view is "valid" in an interpersonal transaction, it is a loser.

You're the prettiest girl I've ever known," he said. She smiled, knowing it wasn't true. But it was true to him.

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Der Versuch, dem objektiven Gehalt Bachs zu seinem Recht zu verhelfen, indem man die subjektive Anstrengung bloß daran wendet, das Subjekt auszumerzen, überschlägt sich. Objektivität bleibt nicht als Rest der Substraktion des Subjekts zurück.

The undiminished irrationality of rational society encourages people to elevate religion into an end in itself, without regard to its content: to view religion as a mere attitude, as a quality of subjectivity. All this at the cost of religion itself. One needs only to be a believer—no matter what he believes in.