Quotes About Subjectivity

For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich may be the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with every tiny readjustment of the "values," with every modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting?

It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck with the beauties of this piece as I was. Yet I am not blind to my author's defects.

Aunque me habló con loco entusiasmo de la belleza de su novia, esta apreciación suya de la hermosura en cuestión no tenía para mí ningún valor.

There's no quantifying someone else's problems as big or small. Although to one person, it may seem slight...there's no way to tell how greatly that same thing may be hurting someone else inside.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

The tenets (and limits) of behaviorism are well conveyed in an old joke: Two behaviorists make love. The first then says to the second, "Well, it was great for you. But tell me, how was it for me?

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to satisfy him personally that it is so. The same evidence which convinces one expert may leave another completely unsatisfied.

La bellezza delle cose esiste nella mente di chi le osserva

If we take seriously the idea that all objects recede interminably into themselves, then human perception becomes just one among many ways that objects might relate. To put things at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us. The Computer

We do whatever we enjoy doing. Whether is happens to be judged good or evil is a matter for others to decide.

What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?

Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well.

The bowl is warmer than the soup.

There is no beauty in Music itself, the beauty is within the listener

Everybody's got a different sense of humor. It's just different styles.

You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.

No opinion is ever fact.

This world is all subjectivity.

Ma subjectivité et le Créateur, c'est trop pour un cerveau.

The frontier between your taste and mine is invisible; you will never be able to grasp it, proof that the frontier itself does not exist.

Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor's new clothes.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

The subjectivity of human thought wants to be objective, but objectivity presents itself as subjectivity to subjectivity, which fools human thought into believing it is objective.