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• I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Sexiness

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• The Austrian theory of subjective value teaches us that there are many ways to incentivize or motivate or induce someone to commit an action for you: you can promise sexual favors, promise to pay money, hire someone, and so on. Also, there is no reason to think that both the boss and his underling cannot both be 100% responsible: in the law this is called joint and several liability.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Thinking, Law, Boss

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

  A. D. Gordon

  Ideas, Objectives

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• The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

  William A. Dembski

  Atheist, Reality, Views

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Objectivity

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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• Independence is a very subjective assessment.

  P. Chidambaram

  Assessment, Independence

  "Chidambaram: Poor Conditions ‘Dehumanize’ Police". Interview with Geeta Anand, blogs.wsj.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  Gary Bauer

  Law, Judging, Quality

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• There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

  Danny Huston

  Art, Example, Problem

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• ...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.

  Peter Singer

  Pain, Animal, Feelings

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• Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Moats, Rift

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• An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

  Robert Longo

  Artist, Intention, Viewers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're doing comedy, it is so subjective. What is funny to you is not funny to another person. What is dirty to you is not dirty to the other person. Comedy is one of those things you throw against the wall and see what sticks.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Wall, Dirty, Sticks

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

  Julian Barnes

  Psychics, Giving, Looks

  "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Reflection

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• I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.

  Sarah Silverman

  People, Want, Materials

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• Change is always subjective.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Change

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.44, editionNEXT.com

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• Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.

  Matsuo Basho

  Bamboo, Want, Preoccupation

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• It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Real, Important, Elements

  "An Outline of Philosophy". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics, 1927.

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• In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Faith, Christian, Heart

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• Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Editing, Objectivity, Ifs

  "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 150), 1986.

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• I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive.

  Sarah Silverman

  People, Offensive, Materials

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Music will always be judged by our subjective ears.

  Jon Foreman

  Ears, Judged

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Reality, Thinking, Links

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world.

  Julian Jaynes

  Real, Vocabulary, Mind

  Julian Jaynes (2000). “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bernoulli's real contribution was to coin a word. The word has been translated into English as "utility". It describes this subjective value people place on money.

  William Poundstone

  Real, People, Coins

  William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.184, Macmillan

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