Quotes About Subjectivity

School is basically about one point of view - the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view.

It doesn't take objectivity to know what you want, and you're not objective enough to know what you need.

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.

We don't see the world as it is, we see it as we are

We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.

We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the 'I' behind the 'eye' that does the seeing.

Lillian was reminded of the Talmudic words: We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are.

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind. Wie sehen sie, wie wir sind.

Noi non vediamo le cose come sono; le vediamo come siamo noi.

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

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind, wir sehen sie so, wie wir sind.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

In the domain of feeling, what is real is indistinguishable from what is imaginary.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object

what makes an object beautiful has nothing to do with its usefulness or its exchange value.

That in real life, there are no protagonists. Or, rather, the reverse: It's nothing but protagonists. It's protagonists all the way down.

HE WAS NOT THE BEST BUT HE WAS THE BEST I EVER HAD

It's easy to say something is all in your head. It's like saying a sunset is all in your eyes, she said, gesturing, pursing her mouth in small furies. It's stupid, it's nonsense. It has no brain for beauty.

It's easy to say something is all in your head. It's like saying a sunset is all in your eyes," she said, gesturing, pursing her mouth in small furies. "It's stupid, it's nonsense. It has no brain for beauty.

there is no universal standard of well-being.