Quotes About Subjectivity

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Sometimes laughing isn't the best judge of what's funny, 'cause I think there's a lot of things that are really funny that don't make you laugh, that don't make you physically, audibly make a noise, but is something that is much more powerful than that.

The names expose the namer more than they limn what's caught the eye.

There's no use arguing with someone's subjective experience,

if everything is entrusted to a single mind, its inevitable subjective distortions will distort, if not altogether disable, the innovation process.

No one is qualified to tell you how you experience the world." Vlad Zamfir

Reality is negotiable.

You can be a juicy ripe peach and there'll still be someone who doesn't like peaches.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.

to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red

The human capacity for subjective victimhood is apparently limitless, and people who believe that they are victims can be motivated to perform acts of great violence.

Those who do not know what love is likens it to beauty Those who claim to know what love is likens it to ugliness -Gin Ichimaru

There's no right way to tell all stories, only the right way to tell a particular story.

Art becomes an experience rather than a text that one interprets, and an experience resists universalization.

Love is the most radical experience we can have as subjects.

Events, or acts of understanding, are the actions of a subject expressed as a verb, the reality of which derives from the person who conjugates it.3 For

Maybe he misremembered much of what he lived through – timescales, sequences, the maths of it – but as he dipped into it via memory the feelings were refelt just as strongly, if not stronger.

What seems obvious to one person wouldn't occur to another. Your perspective is hard coded into the work that you create.

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

You never know what people will choose to be offended by.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.