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Quotes About Subjectivity

I don't want to see people as other people see them, I want to see them as I see them.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
~ Ernest Hemingway
All remembrance of things past is fiction.
~ Ernest Hemingway
There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.
~ Ernest Hemingway
She has regular features but yet one could not say that she was pretty. She is too big and too stout. Her features are not regular and yet one could say that she is very pretty. She is too small and too thin. She's a voice teacher
~ Eugene Ionesco
O critic? "negativ? se realizeaz? str?lucitor pe lucidit??i m?runte. Lucrul acesta îl ÅŸtia pân? ÅŸi Titu Maiorescu: cita cazul omului de bun-simÅ£ care s-a revoltat c? poetul compar? ochii iubitei cu dou? stele, c?ci este absurd s? g?seÅŸti o asem?nare între ochii mari, negri ÅŸi stelele mici, argintii.
~ Eugene Ionesco
IubiÈ›i cititori...fiecare dintre voi are dreptate, numai ceilalÈ›i greÈ™esc. Totdeauna. Cu o condiÈ›ie: nici unul dintre voi s? nu-È™i închipuie c? e celalalt. Nu v? încredeÈ›i în afirmaÈ›iile altora. RepuneÈ›i totul în discuÈ›ie. FiÈ›i voi înÈ™iv?. Nu ascultaÈ›i nici un sfat: cu excepÈ›ia acestuia.
~ Eugene Ionesco
If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
~ Eugen Weber
In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.
~ Andrew Lang
The colour red doesn't actually exist,' she said. 'It only exists as an idea in your head. Always remember that. You create it yourself when your imagination meets the light.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
There's no reality but versions of reality.
~ Andrew Pyper
By understanding how the same scene can appear different, depending on the viewpoint from which it is perceived, we learn to separate the accidents of viewpoint from the properties of the thing itself. By treating subjectivity objectively, we master it.
~ Andrew Thomas
The observation of an object by an observer results in an equivalent observation of the observer by the observed object.
~ Andrew Thomas
No sabemos mucho del amor. Con el amor es como con la pera. La pera es dulce y tiene forma. Intentad definir la forma de la pera." Jaskier en "Tiempo de Odio".
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
O amor tem vários nomes e a proximidade do convívio, mesmo grande ou não, é um assunto muito subjetivo.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
In the midst of nature's savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.
~ Andy Miller
I say he had a propensity for 'finding himself in the right place at the right time'; yet it was almost as if he himself were an objet trouvé, for, subjectively, himself he never found, since it was not his self which he sought.
~ Angela Carter
Now that," said Mrs. Morland, up in arms for seeing things straight, "is just rubbish. There isn't any good or bad taste about what books you read: it's what you like or don't like.
~ Angela Thirkell
And you can be in real danger of judging people based on their reactions to what you love. If I recommend 'Modern Family' to someone and they return saying it wasn't for them, I finish their sentence with 'cos I hate brilliantly written and hilarious sitcoms.'
~ Sarah Millican
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
~ Samuel Richardson
Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.
~ Ben Shahn
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
~ Bruce Nauman
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
~ David Hume