Quotes About Subjectivity

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands, or were able to draw with their feet and produce the works which men do, horses would draw the forms of gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make the gods' bodies the same shape as their own.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

What if reality (as perceived) were simply an extension of the self? Wouldn't that color the way each individual experiences the world?

Naše prožívaní reality je spíš projekcí naší vlastní mysli, a to mnohem víc než si p?ipouštíme.

the experience of an event depends on the mind of the experiencer, even more than the event itself.

It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

The idea that someone, man or woman, should receive any kind of extra attention or affection or popularity or respect or adulation, simply because of a quirk of genetics and some arbitrary male-media-defined subjective notion of 'beauty' seems to me inherently wrong and unacceptable.

No two people see things the same.

The evolution of Homo Sapiens into self-consciousness alienated the human species from the rest of the world, which became objectified for us as we became subjects looking out at it. This original sin is passed down to every generation as a linguistically conditioned and socially maintained illusion that each of us is a consciousness existing separately from the world.

we see the world as we are, not as the world is.

History is not truth — it records not what occurred but what is remembered.

One way to look at a painting—and I use that word as shorthand for visual art in general—is to notice as you take its measure what it is you actually find yourself thinking about, which may differ from what you imagine you're supposed to be thinking about.

Nobody involved in a conflict thinks they're the villain.

Well, they never know they're ill, do they? You can't diagnose yourself with the same organ that has the disease, just like you can't see your own eyeball. So, I suppose you just feel normal and the rest of the world seems to go crazy around you.

Time is the thing that everyone knows intimately – until you ask them to tell you about It.

It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them.

Do clocks tell time or does time tell clocks

Freedom of hearing. The objective ( the thing said ) and the subjective (the thing heard ) if you need "accredited" mediators and censors to police your subjectivity there's really not much hope for you.

Beauty lies in the eye.

It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.

…We feel different things. We like different things. It's like they say with books, no two people ever read the same book. It's the same with music, yo.

We don't see things. We see reflections of our feelings and perceptions.

Todo es justificable desde el propio punto de vista, y cada cual tiene el suyo, cargarse de razón es muy fácil.