Quotes About Subjectivity

No one can see your life the way you see it.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

My situation gives me certain ideas about beauty or the excitement of life, but that doesn't mean other people can necessarily appreciate it.

I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life.

The hitter can never be the judge. Only the receiver of the blow can tell you how hard it was, whether it would kill a man or make a baby just yawn.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision.

Compare with one else subject or figure doesn't mean degrading one and ennobling another; however, it shows only the accuracy between that as an opinion.

When a writer, hired one or politically, and emotionally related to a subject for whatever purposes, writes not in a neutral concept, and honest notion; indeed, then a lie becomes a significant and reliable history in the eyes of pseudo-intellectuals. Similarly, as a negative-minded focuses on the thorns of a rose, ignoring and avoiding its beauty and fragrance that prevails.

La justice n'est qu'une question de point de vue.

We never really encounter the world; all we experience is our own nervous system.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. . . . To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion, "Tell me, Master, what is the best move in the world?" There simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game. . . . One should not search for an abstract meaning of life.

It's a typical Western bias. You think a tool is more important than a dream because a tool can be measured and a dream cannot.

I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I'm still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one's own interests.

Mi ero accorta da tempo che ognuno si organizza la memoria come gli conviene, tuttora mi sorprendo a farlo anch'io

The 'right reading' is an invention of academics and critics. Every reader gets from the book he is reading nothing else but his book. The shelves where we line up the volumes we've read are deceptive. We have available there only titles, covers, pages. But the books we've truly read are phantoms conjured up by reading with no rules.

Cada cual se organiza el recuerdo como le conviene.

Ognuno si racconta la vita come gli fa comodo».