Quotes About Subjectivity

Relationships are about stories, not truth.

It's a reminder that if someone's happy, maybe that's the only reality that matters.

Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

I love to you" is more unusual than "I love you," but respects the two more: I love to who you are, to what you do, without reducing you to an object of my love.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

If thy predicates are anthropomorphisms, the subject is an anthropomorphism too.

In place of [the classic spirit] … entered with Christianity the principle of unlimited, extravagant, fanatical, supranaturalistic subjectivity; a principle intrinsically opposed to that of science, of culture. With Christianity man lost the capability of conceiving himself as a part of Nature.

O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.]

T]he object to which a subject essentially, necessarily relates, is nothing else than this subject's own … objective nature.

The Christians made mental phenomena into independent beings, their own feelings into qualities of things, the passions which governed them into powers which governed the world, in short, predicates of their own nature, whether recognised as such or not, into independent, subjective existences.

The salvation of the soul is the fundamental idea, the main point in Christianity; … this salvation lies only in God … But God is absolute subjectivity, … separated from the world, … set free from matter, severed from … life … and … from the distinction of sex. Separation from the world, from matter, from the life of the species, is therefore the ultimate aim of Christianity. … [T]his aim had its visible, practical realisation in Monachism.

Christianity has spiritualised the egoism of Judaism into subjectivity (though … this subjectivity is again expressed as pure egoism), has changed the desire for earthly happiness, the goal of the Israelite religion, into the longing for heavenly bliss, which is the goal of Christianity.

Man … projects his being into objectivity. … [T]hen … makes himself an object to this projected image of himself[.]

The more man alienates himself from Nature, the more subjective, i.e., supranatural or antinatural, is his view of things, the greater the horror he has of Nature, or at least of those natural objects and processes which displease his imagination, which affect him disagreeably.

O valor não é intrínseco. Não está nas coisas e nas condições, mas no sujeito que as avalia.

Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

but I used to think, Josef says quietly, that there are some weeds that are just as beautiful as flowers. (pg 134)

Recollections are in the eye of the beholder. No two held side by side can ever quite match.

Art isn't what you see. It's what you remember.

Nobody's all good or all bad. They just get painted that way.

It is remarkable how events and truths can be reshaped, like wax that's sat too long in the sun. There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.