Quotes About Subjectivity

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

A beautiful object has no intrinsic quality that is good for the mind, nor an ugly object any intrinsic power to harm it. Beautiful and ugly are just projections of the mind. The ability to cause happiness or suffering is not a property of the outer object itself. For example, the sight of a particular individual can cause happiness to one person and suffering to another. It is the mind that attributes such qualities to the perceived object.

I have seen many a face that was more good-looking — never one that looked half so good.

A minute to Dolly's like a lifetime to everybody else.

There are as many cubes as there are observers constructing cubes. And when you look away, your cube ceases to be.

The math is not the territory.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

'Darkness' is a subjective word; it depends what your viewpoint is and how you live life.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Reality is negotiable.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

We are the hero of our own story.

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

It's not a lie if it's how you feel

Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.

I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it's actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they can't all think it's ugly.' He smiles out at the ugly trees and the ugly farmland and the ugly kids as if he can see Oz. As if he can really, truly see the beauty that's there. In that moment I wish I could see it through his eyes. I wish he had glasses to give me.

Because it's not a lie if it's how you feel.