Quotes About Subjectivity

But if you can't say what Quality is, how do you know what it is, or how do you know that it even exists? If no one knows what it is, then for all practical purposes it doesn't exist at all. But for all practical purposes it really does exist.

If subjectivity is eliminated as unimportant, he said, then the entire body of science must be eliminated with it.

US/THEM-ING TYPICALLY involves inflating the merits of Us concerning core values—we are more correct, wise, moral, and worthy when it comes to knowing what the gods want/running the economy/raising kids/fighting this war. Us-ness also involves inflating the merits of our arbitrary markers, and that can take some work—rationalizing why our food is tastier, our music more moving, our language more logical or poetic.

E]in blasser, sozusagen grammatikalischer Schatten von Egoismus bleibt auf allem Tun haften, solange es keine Prädikate ohne Subjekte gebe.

Ein Mann, der die Wahrheit will, wird Gelehrter; ein Mann, der seine Subjektivität spielen lassen will, wird vielleicht Schriftsteller; was aber soll ein Mann tun, der etwas will, das dazwischen liegt?

Out of your world perhaps, Susan — but not out of mine,' said Anne with a faint smile.

Maybe there is no true story, only imagined stories, vague reflections of what we saw and what we heard, what we felt and what we thought.

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.

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Besides, what is the whole truth and nothing but the truth? The truth is not a finite commodity that can be contained within identifiable borders. The truth is messy, riotous, overrunning everything. You can never know the whole truth of anything. And if you could, you would wish you didn't.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Most of the time, there is no truth, only various levels of interpretation. Fact is a construct we provide to the public.

Cada uno hablará de la feria según le haya ido a su mercancía.

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

Humor comes in all forms, and everyone has their cup of tea about what makes them laugh. But the day we censor humor is a sad one for sure.

Philosophy, art, and science are not the mental objects of an objectified brain but the three aspects under which the brain becomes subject.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.

Art can contradict Science.

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.