Quotes About Subjective

There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.

I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.

I make no distinction whatever between reality and fantasy, or the objective and the subjective. All life and all awareness are ultimately one, including intensest pain and death itself. Not all the play need please us, and ends are never comforting. Some things fit together harmoniously and beautifully and startlingly with thrilling discords—those are true—and some do not, and those are merely bad art. Don't you see?

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

There can be no arguing about matters of taste. I

We remember only what we want to remember.

Morality always differs from person to person, according to time, place, situation—and convenience.

This use of advertising - to add a subjective value to the product - becomes increasingly important as the trends in our technology lead to competing products becoming more and more the same.

Evil is a point of view.

The easier it is to quantify, the less it's worth.

Meaning is like pornography, you know it when you see it.

knowledge is indeed highly subjective, but we can quantify it with a bet. The amount we wager shows how much we believe in something.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

Unreasonable is very relative.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

the abandonment of a belief in objective values can cause, at least temporarily, a decay of subjective concern and sense of purpose. That it does so is evidence that the people in whom this reaction occurs have been tending to objectify their concerns and purposes, have been giving them a fictitious external authority. A claim to objectivity has been so strongly associated with their subjective concerns and purposes that the collapse of the former seems to undermine the latter as well.

The difficulty of seeing how values could be objective is a fairly strong reason for thinking that they are not so

The denial that there are objective values does not commit one to any particular view about what moral statements mean, and certainly not to the view that they are equivalent to subjective reports.

Everything is a matter of perspective, she told them. Every story of what happened is just a version of what happened. Memory is subjective. Fact and truth are two different things.

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.

The actuality of Nature is like the beauty of Nature. We can scarcely describe the beauty of a landscape as non-existent when there is no conscious being to witness it; but it is through consciousness that we can attribute a meaning to it. And so it is with the actuality of the world. If actuality means 'known to mind' then it is a purely subjective character of the world; to make it objective we must substitute 'knowable to mind'.

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.