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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• "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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• 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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• Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Mean

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

  Stephen Chow

  Objectivity, Needs, Creation

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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