Quotes About Subjectivity

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best

Most people give advice based on their own personal experience and gathered opinions.

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

I like a work of art for what it means to me.

You should remember, my dear, that beauty is in the lover's eye.

ache belo tudo o que puder, a maioria das pessoas não acha belo o suficiente.

Could it not be the case that if one loves something one sees it better and more truly than if one did not love it?

Because when it comes to memories, what counts is not accuracy, but the feelings they call up.

Accept that you will never be objective enough to judge your personal writing very well. During

When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.

Los motivos de crítica o de rechazo de la fe se presentan siempre, obviamente, como algo objetivo, cuando -para quien conoce los intríngulis del corazón humano- son demasiado a menudo el grito ansioso de la subjetividad de personas que sufren.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

Point me to 50 people online who think I'm super sexy. I'll point you to 50 more who say he's old and looks like my dad.

Los recuerdos del pasado no son recuerdos de los hechos, sino recuerdos de tu imaginación de los hechos

The authority of beauty is a very irrational thing.

fingerprint—it's no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania.

Everyone is entitled to my opinion.

I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.