Quotes About Subjectivity

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it. The objects that provoke aesthetic emotion vary with each individual.

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

He has always held to the principle (which was also favoured by Stefan Zweig) that great artists are disqualified from being objective critics, because they are always thinking of how they would have done it.

Beautiful? For whom? Why, for myself, of course.

For Marcuse, the distinguishing features of a human being are free and creative subjectivity. If in one's economic and social life one is administered by a technical labor apparatus and conforms to dominant social norms, one is losing one's potentialities of self-determination and individuality. Alienated from the powers of being-a-self, one-dimensional man thus becomes an object of administration and conformity.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Ovšemže úsudky mohou být v mnoha p?ípadech nesprávné, jak se správn? obáváte. Ale o to práv? nejde, nýbrž o to, aby se dal žák?m svobodný prostor pro to vyjád?it své vlastní pocity, vlastní úsudky - i když jsou zkreslené.

The objective world is, it does not happen. Only to the gaze of my consciousness, crawling along the lifeline of my body, does a section of this world come to life as a fleeting image in space which continuously changes in time.

The very reason which repels some is precisely that which appeals to others.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

Memory is slippery. It bends to our understanding of the world, twists to accommodate our prejudices. It is unreliable. Witnesses seldom remember the same things. They identify the wrong people. They give us the details of events that never happened. Memory is slippery, but my memories suddenly feel slipperier.

Rules are different for poets.

She's there, throwing daggers at a painting of a sunset. 'You didn't like it?' I ask, pointing to the canvas. 'I liked it well enough,' she says. 'Now I like it better.

Do not expect others to share my depraved tastes.

Just remember: Forever is relative. What one person sees as three years can feel like a lifetime to another.

History is neither truth nor completeness. It is simply the best story people can string together at the time, out of whatever facts and snippets they might have on hand.

Maybe, no matter what right thing you tried to do, your action would be the wrong thing for somebody

Events which seem to us dramatic are nothing more than subjects which our souls convert into tragedy or comedy according to the bent of our characters.

It wasn't logical, but the better you knew someone, the more blurry they became. The accumulation of facts made them disappear. It was more interesting wondering if someone did or didn't like country music than knowing one way or the other.

What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.

One of the most interesting findings in modern psychology is that the way people perceive and interpret things affects how they feel about them. As the old saying goes, there are two sides to every story. Now, modern science tells us that the side people see affects what they think, how they feel, and ways they behave.

She said no one had more than one perspective, not even in his so-called hard sciences. 'We're always, in everything we do in this world,' she said, 'limited by subjectivity. But our perspective can have an enormous wingspan, if we give it the freedom to unfurl.

what I'd become more interested in is how we believed we could be objective in any way at all, we who each came in with our own personal definitions of kindness, strength, masculinity, femininity, God, civilization, right and wrong.