Quotes About Subjectivity

I wouldn't dream of giving any human being marks out of 10 on two hours' acquaintance.

I would never choose a subject for what it means to me. I choose a subject and then what I feel about it, what it means, begins to unfold.

Dinty W. Moore

Because there's so much that just can't be said plainly. Try describing what beauty is - plainly - and you'll see what I mean.

ByÅ'o to fascynujÄ…ce, szczególnie sklepy z artykuÅ'ami papierniczymi - na nie mogÅ'abym patrze? bez koÅ"ca. Rose twierdzi, ?e to najnudniejsze sklepy na Å›wiecie, poza, by? mo?e, rze?nikiem. (Nie rozumiem, jak mo?na nazwa? sklepy rze?nicze nudnymi; sÄ… zbyt peÅ'ne okrucieÅ"stwa).

What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.

I am aware that when we see something, we are getting only a measure of information, a sense, an inkling of what is really there to see. I don't know the details or the terminology but I do know that the optic nerve is not telling the full truth. We're seeing only intimations. The rest is our invention, our way of constructing what is actual, if there is any such thing, philosophically, that we can call actual.

To see how differently folks experience a work of fiction, check their comments on Goodreads. Are those people all reading the same novel?

There's no 'rational grounds' for anything I care about.

And the strange thing was: I knew that most people didn't see her as I did — if anything, found her a bit odd-looking with her off-kilter walk and her spooky redhead pallor. For whatever dumb reason I had always flattered myself that I was the only person in the world who really appreciated her— that she would be shocked and touched and maybe even come to view herself in a whole new light if she knew just how beautiful I found her.

She was beautiful, too. That's almost secondary; but still, she was.

Hell's different things to different people and different things to the same person at different times.

It is an emotional issue which ultimately revolves around the question of whether other animals affectively experience the world and themselves in a way similar to humans—as subjectively feeling, sentient creatures. The topic of subjectivity is one that modern neuroscience has avoided. It is generally agreed that there are no direct, objective ways to measure the subjectivity of other animals, nor indeed of other humans.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

She wasn't actually a girl you'd turn around and look at again, and remember, I suppose; she wasn't actually pretty, I guess you'd have to say. But after I'd talked to her a few times, and had a Coke date once, when I ran into her downtown-then she was pretty.

Somewhere we taught ourselves that our opinions are more significant than the facts. And somehow we get our egos and our opinions and Truth all mixed up in a single package, so that when something does challenge one of the notions to which we subscribe, we react as if it challenges us.

Miss Selby was thirty-four last February. But she looks thirty-five. I'd give her thirty-five easy.

Weather here in this part of the world is just as moody, just as subjective and disloyal, as people.

I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.

Who knows if all our brains are inventing the same thing? I mean, how do we know that the thing YOUR eyes see and call "red" is the same thing that I call "red"?

Si bien es cierto que el conocimiento no son los datos que se manejan sino más bien la certeza vivencial, también es verdad que esta última puede no ser compartida. La razón de ello no radica en el hecho de que la certeza sea relativista, sino solamente en la existencia de diferentes certezas. Todos llegamos al mismo conocimiento interno porque éste no es relativo en cuanto a su verdad, pero existen diferentes gradientes y ritmos para alcanzarlo

Beauty reflected in a pool may be a little blurred, but it can be as beautiful in its own way as the original.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me