Quotes About Subjectivity

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

I've had people hate me for my appearance. I think it gets me a certain level of empathy with the audience. If I was white and handsome and privileged, I probably couldn't talk about what I talk about because people wouldn't believe that I have empathy or I could be evenhanded and objective. It's strange.

If you're offended, it's your problem.

In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth.

Anytime emotions are involved, you cannot come up with an impartial and objective assessment of any given problem.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

'Justice' actually means different things to different people.

Certain people like the way I make films, and others do not. I've come to terms with the fact that there's no other way I can make films. If I tried to do it in a different way, it would never work.

Stand-up's a lottery - you think it's funny but the audience can disagree.

I discover in my experiential space evidence for the wrongness of solipsism, and this evidence is called beauty.

There are 36 ways to tell this story. And all of them are disgusting.

Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.

'Carol' is so distorted by point-of-view.

Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

A woman is more beautiful than the world in which I live; and so I close my eyes.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Facts and particulars annoy me.

I don't believe people are interested in dates and facts. I don't think it is interesting to say what it is to be this person or that, but I do believe it is entertaining and perhaps even of value to express how it is to be that person.