Quotes About Subjectivity

as I think Hebbel says, in a good play everyone is right.

No, but your idea of what betters human life might differ from someone else's.' For

Well-being and need are purely relative concepts. There is no such thing as poverty in itself, suffering in itself, unhappiness in itself. All is relative.

I wonder about this emptiness," he said. "It would seem not to have any existence independent of our perception of it. An interesting substance. One could think it pleasant or unpleasant, strong or weak, and that would in fact be its reality.

I'm not exactly sure what happened. Sometimes I remember it one way, sometimes another... If I'm going to have a past, I prefer it to be multiple choice! ~ JOKER

You shouldn't feel guilty about enjoying something that other people don't. Well, apart from torture, but that's probably the only exception

not just every object but the whole culturally experienced world is an 'achievement' of what he terms 'anonymous' or 'functioning subjectivity'.

Hamlet: 'There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

It's a rule in life that the more certain we appear about something, the less we know about it. It has a name – the Dunning–Kruger effect – and it is at work every time someone tells you with absolute certainty how things are in the world. The sign of the true expert is his modest awareness of how much more there is to know; how complex and nuanced the subject at hand insists on remaining.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' Later, in the nineteenth century

The appreciation of a painting or a piece of music, for example, or even falling in love, is all about our subjectivity. But to decide that the entire universe operates in such a way, let alone to go to war because we are so convinced we are right that others must agree with us or die, that surely should demand a higher level of argument than 'It's true because I really, really feel it is.

It's never possible to know for certain the "true" source of any given interpretation, the dividing line between our association (i.e., projection) and reality. The question quickly becomes, What is real? It is always possible to consciously or unconsciously "see" almost anything we want. I can look at the ceiling and see an image of the Virgin Mary, or I can look at the ceiling and see that the spackler did a damn good job.

The notion of the measuring scale is critical in Hindu thought. The value of an object depends on the scale being followed. And since all scales are man-made, all values are artificial. Thus all opinions ultimately are delusions, based on man-made measuring scales.

History seeks to be everyone's truth, but is limited by available facts. More

Your reality is different from my reality, because your body is different, your filters are different, your experiences are different, your knowledge is different.

What may seem like a good deed from one point of view may not be seen as one from another point of view. Thus

The Gita itself values subjectivity: after concluding his counsel, Krishna tells Arjuna to reflect on what has been said, and then do as he feels (yatha-ichasi-tatha-kuru). Even

Events are events. Humans qualify them as good or bad.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder are mirrors a waste of time?

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

le mot « sujet » a deux sens en français : c'est à la fois « une subjectivité libre : un centre d'initiatives, auteur et responsable de ses actes », et « un être assujetti, soumis à une autorité supérieure, donc dénué de toute liberté, sauf d'accepter librement sa soumission ». (p. 92)