Quotes About Subjectivity

It appeared that each observer must have his own measure of time, as recorded by a clock carried with him, and that identical clocks carried by different observers would not necessarily agree.

The nonexistence of absolute rest therefore meant that one could not give an event an absolute position in space, as Aristotle had believed. The positions of events and the distances between them would be different for a person on the train and one on the track, and there would be no reason to prefer one person's position to the other's.

There is no way to remove the observer—us—from our perception of the world

This is known as the twins paradox, but it is a paradox only if one has the idea of absolute time at the back of one's mind. In the theory of relativity there is no unique absolute time, but instead each individual has his own personal measure of time that depends on where he is and how he is moving.

Personally, I get uneasy when people, especially theoretical physicists, talk about consciousness. Consciousness is not a quality that one can measure from the outside. If a little green man were to appear on our doorstep tomorrow, we do not have a way of telling if he was conscious and self-aware or was just a robot.

Când analiz?m mai atent felul în care ne facem observaÈ›iile È™i ne construim concepte despre ceea ce ne înconjoar?, ajugem s? ne întreb?m dac? avem motive întemeiate s? credem c? exist? o realitate obiectiv?.

Na teoria da relatividade, não existe tempo absoluto único; em vez disso, cada indivíduo tem sua própria medida de tempo, que depende de onde ele se encontra e de como está se movendo.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

And what makes you think you're a main character in anything but your own mind?

But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn't always have a lot to do with objective truth.

Never before in his life had he understood how subjective, how plastic, time really is.

people can be creul, people can be mean, what they say about us is not true it makes it there opinion, and it doesnt mean thats how the rest of the world see's it.

Things mean pretty much what we want them to mean.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self.

Keep your mind open. The meaning of things lies in how people perceive them. The same thing could mean different meanings to the same people at different times.

Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet.

What life means has individual answers for each of us.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

Your new CD is a weed plate, nothin' but love songs, 100% pure garbage, just something to break up buds on.

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book