Quotes About Subjectivity

Most events in consciousness are built from culturally defined contents as well as from personal meanings developed throughout an individual's life. Thus, two persons can never be expected to have the same experience, and the farther apart in time and place they are, the more the details of the two experiences will differ.

what I found difficult was the mixture of finger pointing and sanctimony in the whole piece, your righteous standpoint over the material, I wasn't so sure about that

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

I am not proposing to ask you to see it from my point of view. You cannot, no matter how willing you are to try. No two people ever see life from the same angle. There is a law which decrees that two objects may not occupy the same space at the same time - result: two people cannot see things from the same point of view, and the slightest difference in angle changes the thing seen.

Our subjectivity is a mirrored, spiked casket. When will we see that all we have done is surround ourselves with our own illusions? Only when we realize our true nature does the casket disappear.

?ovjek i nije drugo nego posuda puna tu?ih ukusa i užitaka!

Ljudi ?itaju kako ho?e (da ?itaju), a ne kako je napisano." (Zapisi iz godine 1933, Djetinjstvo 1902-03 i drugi zapisi, str. 286.; Sabrana djela Miroslava Krleže, sv. 27, Zora, Zagreb, 1972.)

I'd discovered that the range of beauty in breasts is wide; while one should never lightly say that a pair is ugly, one can easily say that a pair of breasts is beautiful. Hedgehogs are beautiful sometimes; so are baby pigs.

The 'I' [Je] who writes is alien to her own writing at every word because this 'I' uses a language that is alien to her; this 'I' [Je] experiences what is alien to her since this 'I' [Je] cannot be un ecrivain. J/e poses the ideological and historical question of feminine subjects.

We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are.

But as I listened to my various mentors argue away the afternoon, I finally caught on to the basic point of it all. With chocolate, there are no straight answers. There are only strongly held opinions.

Everything I say is actual, not factual

T]he 'subject-in-process' [is] a term I use heuristically to capture the idea that subjectivity is constituted (by language, discourse, or power), inessential and thus perpetually open to transformation.

My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into it. It opens up spaces for political contestation and allows for the flourishing of new forms of politics to sit alongside its more conventional ones. Feminism does not need the stable unitary subject to guarantee its politics. It needs a deeper understanding of the political nature of subjectivity and of the dynamism of politics.

Compared to general opinion, personal opinion is simply unnecessary.

The first challenge is that, you cannot expect everyone to get the same understanding of the book. Are we not all unique in life?

The present does exist, but inside our minds only.

There are no rules in the search for experience, everything, good or bad, is left to the observer.

Time is like opinions. If that makes sense to you, then it's true. Therefore, it is real based on your location.

We cannot tell, at first sight, who is correct or wrong, because we are all caught up in a different perceptive, views and opinions.

We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

Saying "It's true for you" sounds fine and tolerant. But it only works because it's twisting the word "true" to mean, not "a true revelation of the way things are in the real world," but "something that is genuinely happening inside you.

My personality. Perhaps the greatest mystery is that one: How can you know what your personality is, since it is completely dependent on how it is perceived and by whom? There's a mirror for beauty, but not for personality.

For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.