Quotes About Subjectivity

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers.

Facts may be colored by the personalities of the people who present them.

El yo se forma a través de dinámicas de interacción entre sujetos que se reconocen, se aprueban, se critican, se pelean, se aman o se odian.

Je sais combien nous sommes sujets à nous méprendre en ce qui nous touche, et combien aussi les jugements de nos amis nous doivent être suspects, lorsqu'ils sont en notre faveur.

Nothing is obvious in itself. Obviousness is subjective.

It would take an extremely unattractive person to think of that." --Nero Wolfe, on the plot of "Cordially Invited to Meet Death" by Rex Stout, p. 159 of 192

Must I again remind you, Archie, of the reaction you would have got if you had asked Velasquez to explain why Aesop's hand was resting inside his robe instead of hanging by his side? Must I again demonstrate that while it is permissible to request the scientist to lead you back over his footprints, a similar request of the artist is nonsense, since he, like the lark or the eagle, has made none? Do you need to be told again that I am an artist?

El tiempo no existe —anota en las hojas de papel periódico que siempre ha usado— porque no sólo es una ficción, sino que le ha estado sucediendo a cada cual». Sin embargo, son las 8:30 p.m.

Would I be any less real if I lived only in your mind?

All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Such people are trapped in their own hall of mirrors, and for them there is no escape. They can never know whether they are wrong, even when they are. No evidence, no logic, no reason will ever get through to them.

'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

Vertebrate brains and objective reality do not fit together like the pieces of a puzzle, for the simple reason that we ourselves create every idea from our own 'objective reality.' 'Real reality,' outside our perception, inevitably remains a construct, and each of us has to decide where God figures in it.

objectivity arose from subjectivity—the recognition that two minds could have different representations of the world and that the world has an existence independent of either representation. This

One man's piety is often another man's poison.

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?

The very nature of the objective universe turns any spiritual faith and ideals into courageous acts of subjectivity , constantly vulnerable to intellectual negation.

Albert Einstein once said, "Sit with a beautiful woman for an hour and it seems like a minute, sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour—that's relativity.

Then, first of all, let us admit that there is no such thing as objectivity, no such objective fact as objectivity. Objectivity is a fabricated concept, a synthetic intellectual construction...

He talks about you...he thinks you're beautiful...