Quotes About Subjectivity

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

Lo que es muy raro es sentir debilidad, verdadera debilidad por alquien, y que nos la produzca, que nos haga débiles. Eso es lo determinante, que nos impida ser objetivos y nos desarme a perpetuidad y nos haga rendirnos en todos los pleitos.

todo puede ser ridículo o trágico según quién lo cuente y cómo se cuente

Different Stories: Why We Each See the World Differently

Our Conclusions Reflect Self-Interest

En otras palabras, el observador no es una entidad concreta sino algo más, un proceso, un flujo…

Aquello que verdaderamente se es, está situado en una realidad carente de significado concreto, averbal, intransferible y alejada de constructos tales como el espacio y el tiempo.

There is only one reality, but there are many ways that reality can be interpreted.

A photograph of a woman crying tells me nothing about grief. Or a photograph of a woman ecstatic tells me nothing about ecstasy. What is the nature of these emotions? The problem with photography is that it only deals with appearances.

a pretty girl, who naked is is worth a million statues

The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.

clearly to be that of human subjectivity, which has nothing with which to challenge the given situation because it is itself a part or a product of the given situation. No new reality can be generated out of the present reality. Even what we call revolutionary is a product of the old world. 1 7

Don't judge us too harshly—or not, at least, till you have taken the trouble to learn our point of view. You consider the individual—we think only of the family.

No two people ever read the same book.

It used to be said that facts speak for themselves. This is, of course, untrue. The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context.

The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use – these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants.

the facts of history never come to us pure, since they do not and cannot exist in a pure form: they are always refracted through the mind of the recorder. It follows that when we take up a work of history, our first concern should not be with the facts which it contains but with the historian who wrote it.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Ne možeš dati sud o onome koga voliš.

Herkes kendi cennetini ba?kas?n?n cehennemine koyar.

December is thirteen months long, July's one afternoon.