Quotes About Subjectivity

I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

There are no beautiful clocks. Everything to do with time is hideous.

Things only exist as long as you see them. And we are all of us nothing but the sum of our moods.

Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that.

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.

Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

There's nothing to this telepathy business. It's all in the mind.

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

In the nude, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

A whole made of good images can be detestable.

Nietzsche says very clearly all the way through his career that if you want to define human nature the first thing you must say is that human beings insist on value--we see the world through value colored eyes. We do not know how to look at things neutrally, value-free. So, it's not a question of giving up all values, it's simply a question of which values.

We humans like to imagine that we have an objective knowledge of the world. We take it for granted that what we perceive on a daily basis is reality—this reality being more or less the same for everybody. But this is an illusion. No two people see or experience the world in the same way. What we perceive is our personal version of reality, one that is of our own creation. To realize this is a critical step in our understanding of human nature.

words have that insidious ability to be interpreted according to the other person's mood and insecurities.

everyone lives in a world of his own. The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly on the way in which he looks at it

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only

You cannot please everyone

Now there was an alternative explanation: people disagreed about Quality because some just used their immediate emotions whereas others applied their overall knowledge.

The trouble is that essays always have to sound like God talking for eternity, and that isn't the way it ever is. People should see that it's never anything other than just one person talking from one place in time and space and circumstance. It's never been anything else, ever, but you can't get that across in an essay.

He noted that although normally you associate Quality with objects, feelings of Quality sometimes occur without any object at all. This is what led him at first to think that maybe Quality is all subjective. But subjective pleasure wasn't what he meant by Quality either. Quality decreases subjectivity. Quality takes you out of yourself, makes you aware of the world around you. Quality is opposed to subjectivity.

Is Euclidian geometry true or is Riemann geometry true? He answered, The question has no meaning. As well ask whether the metric system is true and the avoirdupois system is false; whether Cartesian coordinates are true and polar coordinates are false. One geometry can not be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Quality is what you like

If you want to build a factory, or fix a motorcycle, or set a nation right without getting stuck, then classical, structured, dualistic subject-object knowledge, although necessary, isn't enough. You have to have some feeling for the quality of the work.