Quotes About Subjectivity

One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgments of value follow directly his wishes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments. [p.111]

Our memory has no guarantees at all, and yet we bow more often than is objectively justified to the compulsion to believe what it says.

Na opinião de Delboeuf, existe apenas um critério válido para determinar se estamos sonhando ou acordados, e esse é o critério puramente empírico do fato de acordarmos.

consider the many ways of failing that await the poet who makes his or her own consciousness of emotions into the subject of a poem, instead of the emotion itself.

Woman] is simply what man decrees; thus she is called the sex, by which is meant that she appears essentially to the male as a sexual being. For him she is sex -- absolute sex, no less. She is defined and differentiated with reference to man and not he with reference to her; she is incidental, the inessential as opposed to the essential. He is the Subject, he is the Absolute -- she is the Other.

Woman has ovaries and a uterus; such are the particular conditions that lock her in her subjectivity; some even say she thinks with her hormones. Man vainly forgets that his anatomy also contains hormones and testicles. He grasps his body as a direct and normal link with the world that he believes he apprehends in all objectivity, whereas he considers woman's body an obstacle, a prison, burdened by everything that particularizes it.

No subject posits itself spontaneously and at once as the inessential from the outset; it is not the Other who, defining itself as Other, defines the One; the Other is posited as Other by the One positing itself as One. But in order for the Other not to turn into the One, the Other has to submit to this foreign point of view.

Between women love is contemplation; caresses are meant less to appropriate the other than to recreate oneself slowly through her; separation is eliminated, there is neither fight nor victory nor defeat; each one is both subject and object

But I know my only defense is to answer, "I think it because it is true," thereby eliminating my subjectivity;

Women- except in certain abstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects .

Un existant n'est rien d'autre que ce qu'il fait; le possible ne déborde pas le réel, l'essence ne précède pas l'existence; dans sa pure subjectivité, l'être humain n'est rien. On le mesure à ses actes.

Die Vorstellung der Welt ist, wie die Welt selbst, das Produkt der Männer: Sie beschreiben sie von ihrem Standpunkt aus, den sie mit dem der absoluten Wahrheit gleichsetzen.

A representação do mundo, como o próprio mundo, é operação dos homens; eles descrevem-no do ponto de vista que lhes é peculiar, e que confundem com a verdade absoluta.

bstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects.

Women- except in abstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects.

it is not the Other who, defining itself as Other, defines the One; the Other is posited as Other by the One positing itself as One. But in order for the Other not to turn into the One, the Other has to submit to this foreign point of view.

Les plus brûlantes images sont froides au prix d'une sensation.

The Other is singularly defined according to the singular way the One chooses to posit himself.

T]here is no way to measure the happiness of others, and it is always easy to call a situation that one would like to impose on others happy...

only the subject can justify his own existence; no external subject, no object, can bring him salvation from the outside. He can not be regarded as a nothing, since the consciousness of all things is within him.

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

I thought Erica Jongs Fear of Flying was one of the biggest pieces of crap that Ive ever read in my life.

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.