Quotes About Subjectivity

What is reality?" - "One of the many possible illusions.

When there is no one to "experience," where is there a question of an I? Only that which Is remains.

La percepción es un proceso activo que constantemente está construyendo modelos del mundo. Esa es una de las razones por las que cada persona ve cosas diferentes en los manchones abstractos de tinta utilizados en las pruebas de Rorschach: nuestra mente trata de convertir incluso los patrones más ambiguos en algo que tenga sentido. Nos gusta tener una historia sobre lo que son y lo que significan las cosas.

Entonces, la idea es que todo lo significativo que vemos en el mundo es algo que nosotros sobreimponemos en él?». «Exactamente»

Por definición, los recuerdos son una versión personal, libre y subjetiva de un individuo, y no postulan jamás a ser la historia oficial. Tienen la modestia de las manos callosas, la singularidad de un rostro, la limitación de una forma particular de sentir.

la relatividad de nuestra memoria que magnifica o empequeñece a discreción, un lenguaje que creemos conocer y que en verdad no conocemos.

the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view - one we can act on

Ever notice folks can justify damned near anything, 'cause they're always the heroes n their own stories?

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all." And

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

as ecotheologian Thomas Berry has written, "we must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects.

We are all products of our worldviews - even scientists who claim objectivity.

They weren't bad books," Phin countered patiently. "They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.

All books are good,' he said... 'They weren't bad books,' Phin countered patiently. 'They were books that you didn't enjoy. It's not the same thing at all. The only bad books are books that are so badly written that no one will publish them. Any book that has been published is going to be a 'good book' for someone.' I nodded. I couldn't fault his logic.

Memory is elastic, and no two people have the same version of any given event. Our versions of our own lives are necessarily fictional to some degree, wouldn't you agree?

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does.

The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

One tooth missing. And only half roughed. on one side only. I'd not call her pretty.

Happiness is the same for everyone, but unhappiness is different for each person.

The emphasis on empathy accomplishes several significant goals in view of a posthuman theory of subjectivity. Firstly, it reappraises communication as an evolutionary tool. Secondly, it identifies in emotions, rather than in reason, the key to consciousness.