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

  Joe Pantoliano

  Objectivity, People

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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

  Martin Heidegger

  Ego, Consciousness, Relate

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• More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

  Alfred Adler

  Reality, Objectivity, Important

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• I really like when critics reveal their subjectivity and their humanity. I prefer it when people say nice things, but if they say not-nice things or things that are critical, I'm open to it and I accept it. I mean, I have to live with it. But I do think there's a dishonesty in not acknowledging that you're a person with an opinion. I think it's almost like a power grab.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• 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.

  Zoe Kazan

  Thinking, Profound, Magic

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• 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?

  Robert Musil

  Men, Play, Want Something

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• We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity. It can't be done, and one of the achievements of postmodernity is to demonstrate that. What we are called to, and what in the resurrection we are equipped for, is a knowing in which we are involved as subjects but as self-giving, not as self-seeking, subjects: in other words, a knowing that is a form of love.

  N. T. Wright

  Self, Objectivity, Knowing

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• We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Thinking, Consciousness

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.

  Antonio Damasio

  Heart, Self, World

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Mean, Compassion

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• No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Objectivity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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• The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Communication, Emotional, Two

  Sade (marquis de), Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “The Marquis de Sade: an essay by Simone de Beauvoir”

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• 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.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Objectivity, Reactions, Modernism

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• Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.

  Devdutt Pattanaik

  Real, Believe, Objectivity

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• Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Dream, Healing, Our World

  "3 Things That Happen to Your Life When You Stop Taking Things Personally" by Tara-Nicholle Nelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 8, 2016.

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• The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about themselves and their world. In a single stroke, we delude our students into believing that bad prose turns opinions into facts and we alienate them from their own inner lives.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Believe, Writing, Heart

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach Guide for Reflection and Renewal”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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

  Luc Sante

  Memories, Self, Names

  "Permanent Outsider: Interview with Luc Sante". artafricamagazine.org. November 25, 2010.

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• The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

  Eric Roberts

  Character, Mind, Ease

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• A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

  Alain Badiou

  Order, Humanity, Development

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• The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Echoes, Infinity

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• There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

  David Porush

  Communication, Wish, Desire

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• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Thinking, Trying

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• 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.

  Martin Buber

  Philosophical, Men, Doe

  Martin Buber (2003). “Between Man and Man”, p.148, Routledge

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

  Mike Patton

  Objectivity, Method, Qualitative

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• We do not know. We can only guess.

  Karl Popper

  Objectivity, Knows

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.278, Routledge

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