Quotes About Subjectivity

ÄŒemu nerozumíme, to si m?žeme vyložit jakkoli.

You're a different human being to everyone you meet.

To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a novel even while appreciating its value.

and of course, you can't ever really know what happens to another person, or what they think happens to them, which amounts to the same thing.

If you told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child. That's always the way.

People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.

Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.

But then sanity was a movable feast, wasn't it? One man's madness might be another's politics.

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. ~ Lady Norcroft

the best sources in the Western tradition have argued that morality is much more than, indeed qualitatively different from, the sum of the values that an essentially autonomous self chooses for itself. Classical, Jewish, and Christian sources, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero, or Augustine, John Chrysostom, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvin, insist that morality is neither plural nor subjective.

Henry Mitchell, in his book One Man's Garden, observes that it is not important for a garden to be beautiful in everyone's eyes. But it is extremely important for the gardener to think it is a fair substitute for Eden. Perhaps this is an overstatement, or perhaps it is a theological truth.

A person has to grow as a moral self in order to transcend this childlike subjectivity and primitive narcissism.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion: "Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?

El verdadero peligro de un ensayo de esta índole no radica en que se detecte un enfoque personal, sino en que se escriba con un tinte tendencioso.

I doubt whether a doctor can answer this question in general terms. For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion: "Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?

Dejo a otros autores la tarea de despersonalizar este texto para poder obtener teorías objetivas a partir de experiencias subjetivas. Estas teorías supondrían una aportación a la psicología o la psicopatología de la vida en cautiverio, cuya investigación se inició en la Primera Guerra Mundial con la descripción del «síndrome de la alambrada de púas».

It is no use trying to sum people up.

He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together.

Roses, she thought sardonically, All trash, m'dear.

Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.

So that was the Lighthouse, was it? No, the other was also the Lighthouse. For nothing was simply one thing

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

Nothing exists outside of us except a state of mind...

Nothing so cuts the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.