Quotes About Subjectivity

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Our awareness creates life. Life does not exist independently of perception.

There is no continuity at all. The universe isn't any particular way. It strictly depends upon perception.

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional.

Happy people are poor psychologists.

Is memory property? If two people remember something differently is one of them wrong? Wasn't my memory of a memory also real?

But what is unjust? That depends on a person's thoughts, values, and beliefs. People differ sharply on what is just or unjust in this world. Thus, some people become angry much quicker than others.

_Not really liking it much_ is a precondition of art criticism of all kinds.

How can you quantify the moment when a person laughs, or when they cry, when they feel? You can't. It's the human experience.

There really is no correct way to hike the trail, and anyone who insists that there is ought not to worry so much about other people's experiences. Hikers need to hike the trail that's right for them...

All truth is relative. Relative to your mind or the mind of another human being. When you say, 'I'm right and the next person is wrong,' all you're really saying is that you're a better perceiver than someone else.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.

Albert Camus suggested that we fall in love with people because, from the outside, they look so whole, physically whole and emotionally 'together' – when subjectively, we feel dispersed and confused.

Does beauty give birth to love? Or does love give birth to beauty? Did I love Chloe because she was beautiful? Or was she beautiful because I loved her?

A person is never good or bad per se, which means that loving or hating them necessarily has at its basis a subjective, and perhaps illusionistic, element.

Uma pessoa nunca é boa ou ruim per se, o que significa que amá-las ou odiá-las tem necessariamente em sua base um elemento subjetivo e talvez ilusionista.

A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.

An idealism previously directed at gods and spirits has been rerouted towards human subjects – an ostensibly generous gesture nevertheless freighted with forbidding and brittle consequences, since it is no simple thing for any human being to honour over a lifetime the perfections he or she might have hinted at to an imaginative observer in the street, the office or the adjoining aeroplane seat.

It just appears natural to be struck by the beauty of some things and to be left cold by others.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.