Quotes About Subjectivity

Bir insan kendini anlat?rken tarafs?zl?k, ucu yalana ç?kan all? pullu bir yol deÄŸil midir?

Zaman müttefikimiz deÄŸil bizim, yarg?c?m?z.

Naturally we project that the moon is always there in space-time, even when we are not looking. Quantum physics says no. When we are not looking, the moon's possibility wave spreads, albeit by a minuscule amount. When we look, the wave collapses instantly; thus the wave could not be in space-time. It makes more sense to adapt an idealist metaphysic assumption: There is no object in space-time without a conscious subject looking at it.

If I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful for you.

Memories are not always the best measure of things.

Perfume makers know that, owing to genetic differences in how we experience fragrances, about half the people who inhale jasmine will think of honey, and the other half, unfortunately, will think of urine. They're both right.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

There are many versions of a story. Many sides and lenses that can distort, change, illuminate what is seen and unseen. What is heard and unheard. What is felt and unfelt. In the end, truth is but a facet of a diamond, a spark of ray from the sun, a forget-me-not flower seen from the eyes of a bee. What lives and breathes as reality is a perception, so who is to say what is possible and impossible?

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Photography and the cinema on the other hand are discoveries that satisfy, once and for all and in its very essence, our obsession with realism. No matter how skillful the painter, his work was always in fee to an inescapable subjectivity. The fact that a human hand intervened cast a shadow of doubt over the image.

Vous ne pourrez jamais voir cette étoile comme je la voyais. Vous ne comprenez pas : elle est comme le cÅ"ur d'une fleur sans cÅ"ur.

We have said nothing about Chirico until we take into account his most personal views about the artichoke, the glove, the cookie, or the spool.

Subjectivity and objectivity commit a series of assaults on each other during a human life out of which the first one suffers the worse beating.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and conditioned by upbringing

A technically perfect photograph can be the world's most boring picture.

Truth is in the eye of the beholder, Doctor, I never tell the truth because I don't believe there is such a thing…" "You're not going to tell me." "But you don't need me to tell you, Doctor,., if you'll just notice the details. They're scattered like crumbs…

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.

How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

Comedy is a weird thing.

It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book.