Quotes About Subjectivity

I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read and you don't, you just failed to read it right. ;-)

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Discussing, learning and teaching, studying and communicating, participating in actions—these are some of the forms of activism that constitute the central axis of the production of subjectivity. A plural ontology of politics is set in action through the encounter and composition of militant subjectivities.

However, once you realize the answer to most questions is, "It depends," you are ready to embark on the quest to figure out what it depends on.

Second, the other person is not the object of intentionality, strictly speaking; the self is not conscious of the other person as Other.[30]

A person who decrees "That's not funny" isn't in a position to define that for anyone, let alone everyone.

Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your taste.

It doesn't have to mean anything to you to mean something to me.

I met an immortal humani once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Aoife the Shadows

Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

My mind on this subject is quite made up, and, having the testimony of my own senses to rely upon, I prefer to abide by it.

Relationships between things shift and change constantly; there is not such thing as objective truth.

If your mother likes your drawing of a duck and hangs it on the refrigerator, that doesn't mean it's good." "Snob," Sam said.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it. God

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

And just because your life isn't as awful as someone else's, that doesn't mean it doesn't suck. You can't compare how you feel to the way other people feel. It just doesn't work. What might look like the perfect life—or even an okay life—to you might not be so okay for the person living it.

He had no ability to distinguish the important from the less important. There seemed to be no such thing as objective reality.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Discipline "makes" individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Of course my own self exists solely in my own consciousness; in that of others who know me there will be versions of it, most of them probably unrecognizable likenesses of the "original"—myself as I see me.