Quotes About Subjectivity

La sensación del mundo físico como entidad externa, independiente y autónoma, se desmorona para quien se percata de esa unidad, y en lugar de una realidad externa inerte y fría, el mundo se vislumbra como lo que es en realidad, un conjunto de procesos no desligados de la propia conciencia.

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.

Where her looks are concerned I do not see clearly. My love and adoration of her makes her beauty boundless in my eyes.

It is always the writer's world that we enter in art—never the objective world.)

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons.

We make the assumption that everyone sees life the way we do

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

At the very beginning, I said my life and Playboy are a Rorschach test. It's a culmination of the dreams and fantasies and prejudices you bring to the table

I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my imagination on other people and on life.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it.

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice," Montaigne observed

Pergunte a um cientista nuclear o que é a realidade e ele vai gaguejar, se for honesto. Mas existe uma realidade percebida, e o ser humano não pode tolerá-la e aí altera a percepção.

Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.

Nobody else can see us, because we have no objective existence whatsoever, and we cannot see anybody else because they have none.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

Call it art, you can get away with anything.