Quotes About Subjective

Sadistic serial killers feel their victims' pain in exactly the same way that you or I might feel it. They feel it cognitively and objectively. And they feel it emotionally and subjectively, too. But the difference between them and us is that they commute that pain to their own subjective pleasure.

Love is an elusive concept and means different things to different people.

Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Fashion is so subjective, and I think it should be playful.

I have come to recognize that the reason I devote myself to research, and to the building of theory, is to satisfy a need for perceiving order and meaning, a subjective need which exists in me.

Emotions are real, just not the reasons behind them.

Pleasures and pains must have been evolved as the subjective accompaniment of processes which are respectively beneficial or injurious to the organism, and so evolved the purpose or to the end that the organism should seek the one and shun the other.

Pleasures and pains must have been evolved as the subjective accompaniment of processes which are respectively beneficial or injurious to the organism, and so evolved for the purpose or to the end that the organism should seek the one and shun the other.

Memory is a wily keeper of the past, usually dependable, but at times, deceptive. Childhood memories are especially slippery. Sweet and so full of joy, they can often be a misrendering of the truth. For a child, that sweetness, out of context and intensely subjective, remains forever real. I know that I will always be haunted by the larger, vaguely remembered reality of the circumstances surrounding my childhood.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

Love meant different things to different people.

Sacrifice was also in the eye of the beholder. Like beauty, it was a personal, subjective assessment, a cost-benefit analysis that had no right answer, only a compass that spun around an individual's variant of true north. Throe

I'm a little bit twisted, so what makes me laugh the hardest doesn't necessarily make other people laugh.

The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject.

An objective heaven or millenium therefore has existence only in fancy, but a subjective one is already in existence.

Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.

For a supposedly sacred, infallible text, it reads a lot like a Choose Your Own Adventure novel.

Love is a highly subjective concept; everyone has different standards for what qualifies

Literacy encourages a culture to place more value on documentation and less on subjective experience.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Finkle-McGraw began to develop an opinion that was to shape his political views in later years, namely, that while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others. This was not a subjective value judgment, merely an observation that some cultures thrived and expanded while others failed. It was a view implicitly shared by nearly everyone but, in those days, never voiced.

quale." The subjective experience of (for example) redness. Or of music, or of a tarte tatin.

Albers celebrated the way that color and line have no truth of their own; what matters is their perception, which depends on what is adjacent to them.