Quotes About Subjectivity

The most important thing in the universe, it turns out, is a complex of subjective and individual approximations. Of tries and fails. Of ideals, and things we do to try to get close to those ideals. It's who we are when nobody is looking.

How subjective the world must have been, then, when no one could remember the same events, and nobody would remember them for long.

In the answer to one of these ancient philosophical questions, it turns out that nobody's idea of green is the same as anybody else's idea of green, at least on a species-level-but at least the physics for comparing them all is pretty straightforward.

Just the word beautiful was seductive - but what did it really mean? Beauty was a soft word that ached with possibility, pliant as dough. You could not presume to define it, she realized, because the very idea of beauty and all it represented was a subjective thing - in the eye of the beholder - but that wasn't really true anymore.

And what is truth, since it changes according to each individual's perception?

We're all too apt to think that things are as we feel them to be, forgetting that they have an objective value apart from what we feel about them. An embittered mind colors the world black for its owner yet that does not alter the fact that the world is a treasure house of beauty and love.

The facts didn't matter. Their stories mattered, and each of their stories belonged to each of them alone.

Everyone thinks like themselves, this is my point.

They relativized man, in the sense that they made who we are dependent to some degree on our experience in a particular time and place, rather than solely on some inborn quality or sense.

Als ik op mijn geheugen af moet gaan heeft een halve eeuw Indië korter geduurd dan een willekeurige valkenjacht op Het Loo, het bezoek van Adeline Renselaar en haar feestcommissie langer dan een weekeinde in Scheveningen. De archieven van je geest kennen geen index, hooguit een paar steekwoorden.

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth.

Ante un texto, cada uno aplica su propia perversidad

Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.

a beleza está nos olhos de quem vê.

Não é o espelho que denuncia a beleza. Ela está nos olhos do observador! Não é a maciez da cama que determina o sono, mas a mente de quem dorme – afirmou Marco Polo com propriedade.

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

Our children seem to have wonderful taste, or none - depending, of course, on whether or not they agree with us.

We invent for ourselves the major part of experience," Nietzsche says in Beyond Good and Evil.

There's no one-to-one correspondence between outer events and our inner emotional states.

I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.

I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.

Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'

When you're filming, not everything is rational.