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Quotes About Subjectivity

Good taste that has been learned ends up being of worse taste than spontaneous bad taste.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
Don't be beautiful, you irritating creature.
~ Unknown
Lewis actually does make a hot girl.
~ Unknown
On the verbal level everything is relative. Absolutes should be experienced, not discussed.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj
Art exists not inside the piece itself, but inside the mind of the viewer.
~ Noah Hawley
This tendency, greatly amplified, characterizes many of the more uncompromising biophilic thinkers who, in trying to construe love of nature as an ethical, rather than merely an esthetic, imperative, become ensnared in the constraints of their own subjectivity.21 These they mistake for sacred law. The most damning thing about this brand of nature worship is that it leads to outright contempt for scientific rationality.
~ Unknown
Pentru poet, obiectivitatea este totul, pentru filoyof, subiectivitatea. Poertul este glasul universului, filoyoful este glasul Unului elementar, al principiului.
~ Novalis
one group's resistance fighter is another group's rogue.
~ Nuruddin Farah
Gerçek ba?kalar?n?n bize uygulamaya çal??t??? tats?z bir ölçüdür. birimi insand?r.
~ Unknown
Yaz bakal?m: Gerçek, ba?kalar?n?n bize uygulamaya çal??t??? tats?z bir ölçüdür. "Birimi var m? Hikmet Amca?" "Birimi insand?r.
~ Unknown
Nothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you can't do with an ugly one? Nothing. It's just a matter of preference.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Your memory creates postcard images, but it doesn't really comprehend the world at all. That's why a landscape is so affected by the mood of the person looking at it. In it a person sees his own inner, transitory moments. Wherever he looks, he sees nothing but himself.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
Wie pani, czasem mam wra?enie, ?e ?yjemy w ?wiecie, który sobie wymy?lamy. Ustalamy sobie, co jest dobre, a co nie, rysujemy mapy znacze?... A potem ca?e ?ycie zmagamy si? z tym, co?my sobie wykoncypowali. Problem polega na tym, ?e ka?dy ma swoj? wersj?, i dlatego tak trudno jest si? ludziom dogada?.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves . . . And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
You know what, sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves . . . And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other." There was some truth in
~ Olga Tokarczuk
we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves . . . And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
You Know what, sometimes it seems to me we've living in a world that fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves...And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problems is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other
~ Olga Tokarczuk
sometimes it seems to me we're living in a world we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what's good and what isn't, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There are a hundred faults in this Thing and a hundred things might be said to prove them beauties.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.
~ Oliver Stone
La difficoltà, in fotografia, è di prendere le distanze dal proprio lavoro, giudicandolo freddamente, facendo a meno del vissuto e dell'emozione che ci uniscono all'immagine.
~ Olivier Föllmi
Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.
~ Oriana Fallaci
I also remembered that you were beautiful." "Memory does play tricks on us." "No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.
~ Orson Scott Card
What superficiality—and what stupidity—there is in trying to depict in a pretty manner things which one has thought pretty. The masters through their subjective perceptions created beauty out of trivialities. They did not hide their interest even in things which were nauseatingly ugly, but soaked themselves in the pleasure of depicting them.
~ Osamu Dazai