Quotes About Subjectivity

Originary perception is a non-thetic, pre-objective, and preconscious experience.

Reflection only fully grasps itself if it refers to the pre-reflective fund it presupposes, upon which it draws, and that constitutes for it, like an original past, a past that has never been present.

I never rejoin the other's lived experience. It is in the world that we rejoin one another.

If objects must never show me more than one of their sides, then this is because I myself am in a certain place from which I can see them, but which I cannot see.

As the thing, as the other, the true dawns through an emotional and almost carnal experience, where the "ideas"—the other's and our own—are rather traits of his physiognomy and of our own, are less understood than welcomed or spurned in love or hatred.

She was one of the people who say: "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."

Das Göttliche ist Gottes Sache, das Menschliche Sache "des Menschen". Meine Sache ist weder das Göttliche noch das Menschliche, ist nicht das Wahre, Gute, Rechte, Freie usw., sondern allein das Meinige, und sie ist keine allgemeine, sondern ist - einzig, wie Ich einzig bin.

Whenever the man of science introduces his personal value judgment, a full understanding of the facts ceases.

when people settle their accounts, guilt is easy to find, and justice is the right to do whatever we think must be done, and therefore justice can be anything.

Jer ništa nije ni dobro ni r?avo, nego ga naše mišljenje ?ini takvim.

Pravda je kao zdravlje, misliš o njoj kad je nema, i zaista je neodre?ena, ali je možda najviše želja da se udavi nepravda, a ona je vrlo odre?ena. Svaka nepravda je jednaka, a ?ovjeku se ?ini da je najve?a koja je njemu u?injena. A ako mu se ?ini, onda i jeste tako, jer se ne može misliti tu?om glavom.

Let me show you what I know of it," he murmured. "Your mouth can be considered a hundred ways. Rico would look at it and he would see the light and shade; Byron Sawyer would see the color; yet another artist might see the line. A hundred truths, and not one is wrong. There are no original ideas, darling, only original visions. Each of us would draw your lips a different way, yet none of us could capture the complete essence of them.

Right and wrong, good and bad, the lines are blurred when it comes to matters of the heart. Anyone who has never felt that has no right to judge, and anyone who ever has won't have to.

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy!

megérthetem, hogyan m?ködik az olvasás, és miért van az, hogy ugyanazok a szavak valakit meghatnak, másvalakit hidegen hagynak, megint mást pedig egyenesen zavarnak

His voice is deep and gravelly. I once heard one of the girls say that he had the voice of a sex god, but because I've never really heard what a sex god sounds like, I can't verify that.

Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion.

Svaka nepravda je jednaka, a ?ovjeku se ?ini da je najve?a koja je njemu u?injena. A ako mu se ?ini, onda i jeste tako, jer ne može se misliti tu?om glavom.

Offense is in the mind of the offended.

The majority of men are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others. Terribly objective sometimes. But the real task is, in fact, to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.'

One of the things that haunts me as an artist is the way we project so much onto the world. I'm down on my luck, and the world looks a wretched place. I'm feeling prosperous, so I think the whole international scene is too. I'm unhappy, so I look around and all I see is unhappiness. I buy a certain brand of car, and suddenly I notice them everywhere. Or I'm in love and all I see is love, the whole world in love.

Time is truly an illusion of the mind.

To a person with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.