Quotes About Subjectivity

When one goes on to find better, or higher, or truer, or more enduring, or more widely agreed upon forms of beauty, what happens to our regard for the less good, less high, less true, less universal instances? Simone Weil says, He who has gone farther, to the very beauty of the world itself, does not love them any less but much more deeply than before.

El calendario también lo encarcelaba en un tiempo anecdótico y lo privaba del otro tiempo que vivía dentro de él.

But look at it this way. Anything is a commodity to someone. In a very large universe, your aunt Gracie's cannonballs may be someone else's favorite underwear.

My feelings are a fact, not a personal delusion. They are valid for me. What business have you got trying to tell me how I ought to feel?

He seemed a fool-everyone who didn't feel like me seems a fool.

In the real world, it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true.

The artist does not see things as they are, but as he is.

Of course I'm not being objective it was my life As a matter of fact I feel positively defiant about

It's what you were to me, liquid, meandering. Love's object .

It was probable, I thought, that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me, and that the whole world was mad.

In a narcissistic cathexis, you invest more energy into your ideas about another person than in the actual, objective, external person. So the man who falls in love with beauty is quite different from the man who loves a girl and feels she is beautiful and can see what is beautiful about her.

Cultural relativism destroys both one's own and the good.

Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.

Yet this is not a novel. It is a faithful transcription of my memories, some of them hazy, others riddled with holes left by the passage of the years, others patched up by time and the filters of experience and distance, and still others, no doubt, completely invented by the stubborn narrator we all have within us, who wants things to be the way they sound best to us now, and not the way they were.

y que la verdad es sólo la parte de la verdad que nos conviene, y

What makes our existence meaningful is highly subjective and ultimately determined by sustainable neurochemical gratification.

No existen cosas demasiado hermosas: sólo existen percepciones cuyo apetito de belleza es mediocre.

Credo che non abbiamo la stessa concezione della parola "sentimento". Per me, voler fracassare la testa a qualcuno è un sentimento. Per lei, piangere sulla rubrica "La posta del cuore" di una rivista femminile è un sentimento.

Pardonnez-moi, je ne parviens pas à comprendre votre peinture. Pourriez-vous m'expliquer? - Il n'y a rien à comprendre, rien à expliquer, répondit-il avec dégoût. Il y a à ressentir. - Précisément, je ne ressens rien. - Tant pis pour vous

I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.

What I like doing is imagery that can be interpreted in any particular way by the person who wears it.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.