Subjectivity Quotes

• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Law, Mind, Desire

  "It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream". Book by Canaan Mashonganyika, p. 125, 2013.

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• The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Life, Ignorance, Reality

  Paul Watzlawick (1977). “How real is real?: Confusion, disinformation, communication”, Vintage

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• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Mirrors, Objectivity, Focus

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.289, A&C Black

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• All experience is subjective.

  Gregory Bateson

  Subjective

  Gregory Bateson (1972). “Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology”, p.47, University of Chicago Press

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• Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Song, Mean

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

  Francis Bacon

  Humility, Mirrors, Objectivity

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• Subjectivity is objective.

  Woody Allen

  Objectives

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• "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.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Objectivity, Might, Moments

  "Fictional character: Sigismundo Celine". The Historical Illuminatus book series, 1982-1991.

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

  John Searle

  Objectivity, Conscious, Distinction

  "The Rediscovery of the Mind". Book by John Searle, 1992.

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• We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Dream, Play, Corny

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.3, PM Press

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• You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

  Byron Katie

  Projects

  Twitter post from Aug 14, 2013

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• True reflection presents me to myself not as idle and inaccessible subjectivity, but as identical with my presence in the world and to others, as I am now realizing it: I am all that I see, I am an intersubjective field, not despite my body and historical situation, but, on the contrary, by being this body and this situation, and through them, all the rest.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Reflection, Historical, Phenomenology

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Thomas Baldwin (2004). “Maurice Merleau-Ponty: Basic Writings”, p.228, Psychology Press

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• A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

  Stephen Chow

  Objectivity, Needs, Creation

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

  Massimiliano Gioni

  Artist, Views, Pretending

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

  Nikola Tesla

  Objectivity, Effort, Brain

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.641, Simon and Schuster

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

  Thomas Metzinger

  Use, Facts, Capacity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with the arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Art, Night, Beholder

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “Can Man Live Without God”, p.12, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Humans, Universe

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• Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Giving Up, Inspiration, Science

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

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Smell, Definitions, Information

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.104, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  Georg Simmel

  Energy, Culture, Tissues

  Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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

  Teresa de Lauretis

  Thinking, Events, Way

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• Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Mean

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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

  Knut Hamsun

  Views, Selfless, Truth Is

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

  Norwood Russell Hanson

  Objectivity, Influence, Framework

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