Quotes About Subjectivity

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

It is only when the child comes to realize that her experiences take place from a first-person perspective that is unique to the child and inaccessible to others, it is only when she realizes that she enjoys unique access to her own experiences, and others to theirs, that her experiences are given to her as subjective, and hence in a first-person mode of givenness.

subjectivity of experience presupposes an apprehension of the distinction between one's own experiences and the experience of others,

Against the background of such considerations, which incidentally entail that we ought to be very cautious in ascribing subjectivity to individuals with severe forms of autism, the very notions of pre-reflective self-consciousness and mineness have been taken to be not only theoretical aberrations but also redundant and explanatorily vacuous

Daniel Alejandro Valdes

Unless we recognize a higher power to whom we are responsible and who observes and knows our actions, we will not transcend the selfishness of our character and the subjectivity of our intellect. If each person is the final arbiter of right and wrong, then 'right' for him or her will be what he or she desires, regardless of its consequences for the other inhabitants of Earth.

Studies such as these demonstrate that once we have an experience, we cannot simply set it aside and see the world as we would have seen it had the experience never happened.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Most of us appear to believe that we are more athletic, intelligent, organized, ethical, logical, interesting, open-minded, and healthy-not to mention more attractive-than the average person.

Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? (The question was first posed by the Irish philosopher George Berkeley.) Simply, no—sound is a mental image created by the brain in response to vibrating molecules. Similarly, there can be no pitch without a human or animal present. A suitable measuring device can register the frequency made by the tree falling, but truly it is not pitch unless and until it is heard.

If an artistic object represents the thing-itself perfectly, it is just another copy of that thing. The point of art is to emphasize some elements at the expense of others...

synthesizing the quantitative rigor of scientific discoveries with the subtlety of our subjective lives. When

wherever there is judgment, there is noise—and more of it than you think.

There is at least one source of occasion noise that we have all noticed: mood.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.

If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.

Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.

The power and appeal of Documentary is the way it alters and plays with the way the viewer relates to and understands the subject.

I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.

You finish a film not in the editing, but in the conversations that audiences have with themselves - and in that sense, every viewer is making a slightly different film. And that's wonderful.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.