Subjectivity Quotes

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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

We do not know. We can only guess.

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.

Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?

The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.

More rationale decreases subjectivity.

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

The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.

Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.

It doesn’t take objectivity to know what you want, and you’re not objective enough to know what you need.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.