Quotes About Subjectivity

Rationalism and sectarism then are the most dangerous enemies of our church at the present time. They are both but different sides of the one and the same principle—a one-sided false subjectivity, sundered from the authority of the objective. Rationalism is theoretic sectarism; sectarism is practical rationalism.

Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

An idea that sounds definite when aired as an opinion may not always appear so certain when applied to human beings.

I'm not remotely interested in me as a subject," she said. "I'm interested in me as an object, and my honesty isn't brave, because it's not for me, it's not about me. It's just that I'm all I've got.

And I realised eventually, I said, that it could never be resolved, not so long as the aim was to establish the truth, for there was no single truth any more, that was the point. There was no longer a shared vision, a shared reality even. Each of them saw things now solely from his own perspective: there was only point of view.

When you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.

People are always happy to tell you what they think of as bad taste, but when you ask them what they really like themselves, theyre suddenly very vulnerable.

I don't believe in expertise. I don't believe that a film critic feels a film more deeply than any person who walks into a theater. I don't believe that.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

I don't think there's anyone that's more beautiful than Halle Berry.

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

The best way to watch a film is to not know anything about the person who made it.

I think I'm the best at everything that I do. I may be biased because it's me. But if you ask me that, that's what I'm going to tell you.

In my eyes, there will never be another Haloti Ngata, but that comes from a biased perspective from me.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

I can't stand Bob Dylan.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

I tend to think history is more a branch of literature than science.

Acting isn't like being an athlete. There's no real quantifiable measure. It's just a bunch of people feeling things.

I don't know if there's such a thing as objectivity.

I don't think there's such a thing as a 'best' drummer.

Asking myself, 'Is this any good?' is pointless. It just slows down my writing, and I can't tell anyway. It's always the paragraphs I loved most, the ones I tenderly polished and re-read with pride, that my editor will suggest cutting.