Quotes About Subjectivity

La única razón por la que las piedras son sólidas es que el cerebro interpreta una ráfaga de señales eléctricas como tacto; la única razón por la que el sol brilla es que el cerebro interpreta otra ráfaga de señales eléctricas como vista. No hay luz solar en mi cerebro, cuyo interior es tan oscuro como una caverna de piedra caliza sin importar cuán iluminado esté el mundo exterior.

I write about subectivety-and inarticulation-about life pushing you into a state where everything is melting until you're left with the absolute and you can find neither the words nor the images to express it.

Nothing is inanimate; what is the rest is our interpretation.

What, to many, passes for thought, is usually a compound of prejudice, desire, and whim.

Everyone sees different things.

And obviously everybody has a different sense of what's funny. If you need confirmation of that, I would remind you that "Saved By the Bell" recently celebrated the taping of their one-hundredth episode.

There is no objective truth in any event, insofar as the meanings we derive from it.

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Being neutral is impossible in many cases, because it may mean that you are an accomplice. You can be fair and objective only by giving a listening ear to both parties. And yet your objectivity will still be scruitinized by subjective minds.

Ce est une idée fausse que la beauté est l'oeil du spectateur. à mon avis, la beauté doit être au cœur du spectateur pour son véritable appréciation.

My writing may not fully represent either my thought process or my personal sentiments at the time of writing those thoughts - because I always strive to be objective and well-balanced spectator of the situation, instead of enforcing my personal standpoints to my readers. I believe that such approach does the best justice to subject matter. Objectivity is always the key and important parameter in all processes of Life!

My writing may not necessarily represent either my state of mind or my personal sentiments as of writing those thoughts - because I strive to be objective and well-balanced spectator of the situation, rather than enforcing my personal standpoints to my readers. I believe that such approach does a best justice to the subject matter. Objectivity is always the key!

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

What we call knowledge does not and cannot have the purpose of producing representations of an independent reality, but instead has an adaptive function.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

The best of all rulers is but a shadowy presence to his subjects.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

She was reflecting back on a truth she had learned over the years: that people heard what they wanted to hear, saw what they wanted, believed what they wanted.

One person's inflammatory rhetoric is another person's poetry,

everyone is living in their own self-created illusion, and that you have no idea what they're acting out or where they're coming from, so just because you think something is totally not okay, in their illusion, it could be fine and your way could be totally not okay.