Quotes About Subjectivity

Unconscious neural events determine our thoughts and actions—and are themselves determined by prior causes of which we are subjectively unaware.

Painting took on a fabulous strength and splendor; the object was discredited as an indispensable element of the picture.

Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

Les heures n'existent pas pour un homme ivre qui n'a pas de montre.

Everyone shuts himself up tightly within himself and insists upon judging the world from there.

The map is not the territory.

Whatever we may say will not be the objective level, which remains fundamentally un-speakable. Thus, we can sit on the object called 'a chair', but we cannot sit on the noise we made or the name we applied to that object.

It was ugly and precious all at once.

We're stuck in our Selves, And who else to be stuck in? - New York to San Fran

There was no proof that everyone perceived it in the same way; maybe Zulema, Riad Halabí, and others had a different impression of things; maybe they did not see the same colors or hear the same sounds I did. If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

May it please your honour, crimes are ghastly or agreeable only by comparison.

Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got.

History is not the story of battles between right and wrong, but between one man's right and another's. Evil is not the opposite of good. It is what we call another man's notion of good when it differs from ours.

Right things, wrong things, well...it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others.

All times are end times for someone.

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.' He shook his head. 'But some men think it's the best thing in the world.

When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.

La historia no es un relato de las batallas entre el bien y el mal, sino entre el bien de una persona y el de otra. El mal no es lo contrario del bien. Es como llamamos a la noción del bien que tiene otra persona cuando difiere de la nuestra.

In fact, scientific experiments have shown that you don't see reality as it truly is. Instead, you unconsciously fill in your reality based on your memories of the past, which is what's neurochemically maintained in your brain.2 When perceptions become implicit or nondeclarative (as was discussed in the last chapter), they become automatic or subconscious so that you automatically edit reality subjectively.

We don't perceive things in our reality the way they are; we perceive reality the way we are.

He had long accepted that everyone had his own world inside, each as real as the communal world shared by all but impossible for others to access.

The best works of art have a tendency to fall through time differently than human beings. They remember, but they also anticipate. A good piece can mean different things to different people at different times, and all of those meanings are true, even if they contradict one another.