Subjectivity Quotations

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

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

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.

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.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.

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.

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

The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.

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

Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.

All experience is subjective.

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

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.

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

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.

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.

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

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

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

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

It is clear that everybody interested in science must be interested in world 3 objects. A physical scientist, to start with, may be interested mainly in world 1 objects--say crystals and X-rays. But very soon he must realize how much depends on our interpretation of the facts, that is, on our theories, and so on world 3 objects. Similarly, a historian of science, or a philosopher interested in science must be largely a student of world 3 objects.

We do not know. We can only guess.

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

The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

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.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Subjectivity is objective.