Quotes About Subjectivity

In place of moral absolutes, they promote moral relativism and sometimes even question the very existence of truth and reality. To them truth and reality are what we subjectively perceive them to be.

There is no such thing as a neutral or objective claim,"1 said Professor Joshua Muldavin of UCLA. It was early in the quarter, and the professor was explaining to our class that there is no such thing as capital-T Truth. There is no right and wrong, no good and evil, he taught. We must always remember that we are subjective beings, and as such, all of our values are subjective. It's a load of bunk. Of course evil exists.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along

If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.

I like to write a piece of music that reflects how I felt about a film as opposed to, here's this action scene; here's this set piece.

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

If you know anything about writing biographies, or what is regarded as a good biography, you have minimum input from the person you are writing about.

Everyone is entitled to their opinions, and I feel like everyone judges people: regardless of whether they know someone or not, they have an opinion based on the persona of the person. I guess you can only have a real opinion of who they are as a person once you meet someone.

I have truly never been honest outside of the home in regards to racism and inequality and what I've been subject to.

You can be accepted in a film which is amazing, and the same person can be rejected in another film whose content does not resonate with people.

People relate to songs so differently. No matter what it's about in reality, people create their own meaning behind it and connect with it on their own terms.

Formula 1 is the sort of place where people tend to have an opinion about everything, and usually, they tend to believe their own opinion is the right one, even if it relates to someone else.

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute.

Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.

I can't really even name a person I like in hip-hop music.

Historians will tell you that they deal with fact and empirical evidence. But that doesn't really help me understand a person.

Anyone who says a movie about history is a historical document is crazy.

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.