Quotes About Subjectivity

I can't tell you what's real for you. But in return, you can't say what's real for me either. I get to choose. Not you.

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth.

Robert was concerned with how to make the photograph, and I with how to be the photograph.

Nobody sees as we do, Patti

Will you take a picture? she said. I looked down at the bleak panorama and shook my head. How could I take a picture of nothing?

In the end, the problem is not so much that people forget, but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for one person can be irretrievably lost for another, and this creates difficulties, insuperable barriers against understanding.

feelings were always feelings, subjectively true one hundred percent of the time...

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.

If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.

When people remembered incidents in which they were the perpetrator, they often described the harmful act as minor and done for good reasons. When they remembered incidents in which they were the victims, they were more likely to describe the action as significant, with long-lasting effects, and motivated by some combination of irrationality and sadism. Our own acts that upset others are innocent or forced; the acts that others do to upset us are crazy or cruel.

Further, spotlights only illuminate what they are pointed at, so empathy reflects our biases.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

The key to success is having the awareness to appreciate – in the words of the French novelist Anaïs Nin 'we see the world not as it is but as we are.' It's recognizing that we see events through our own mental filters and give our own meaning to those events – a meaning which may be very different to someone else's.

You can ask ten different psychiatrists what they might do in a given situation, and you might get ten different answers. And it's possible that none of them would be wrong.

One man's ceiling is another man's floor.

When their feelings don't fit the facts, they may unconsciously revise the facts to fit their feelings. This may be one reason why their perception of events is different from yours.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

Filosofische posities krijgen hun ware objectiviteit alleen wanneer de lezer ze zich zelf toeëigent, wanneer hij ze voor eigen rekening zelf na-denkt, en zo de gedachten van anderen tot zijn eigen, opnieuw persoonlijke gedachten maakt.

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

There's no way I could make the case that Animal House is a better picture than Heaven Can Wait , yet on some sort of emotional-aesthetic level I prefer it.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Each, however, as he revolves about "his" truth, feels threatened if that truth is questioned. Thus, each considers anything that is not "his" truth a lie.

Mais do que ser educando por causa de uma razão qualquer, o educando precisa tornar-se educando assumindo-se como sujeito cognoscente e não como incidência do discurso do educador. Nisto é que reside, em última análise, a grande importância política do ato de ensinar.

The radical is never a subjectivist. For this individual the subjective aspect exists only in relation to the objective aspect (the concrete reality, which is the object of analysis). Subjectivity and objectivity thus join in a dialectical unity producing knowledge in solidarity with action, and vice versa.