Subjectivity Quotes - Page 4

• I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.

  Rob Roberge

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Irony, Qualifications

  "On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Creativity, Objectivity, Creative

  "Hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco". “The Tavis Smiley Show”, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

  Antonio Damasio

  Views, Names, Mind

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they control enormously, enormously, in an enormously important way.

  Henry Giroux

  Important, Desire, Identity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Media, Cynical, Pessimistic

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.

  William Boyd

  Views, Acting, Cameras

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• Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Impact, Culture

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books

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• More rationale decreases subjectivity.

  Sol Sender

  Decrease, Rationale

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• 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.

  Thomas Nagel

  Views, Consciousness, Theory

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• With subjectivity in philosophy, anarchism in politics goes hand in hand. Already during Luther's lifetime, unwelcome and unacknowledged disciples had developed the doctrine of Anabaptism, which for a time dominated the city of Munster. The Anabaptists repudiated all law since they held that good men will be guided at every moment by the Holy Spirit, who can not be bound by formulas. From this premise they arrive at communism and sexual promiscuity; they were therefore exterminated after a heroic resistance.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

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• Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Vision, Criticism

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• One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife, you love your wife; with your children, you love your children; with your servants, you love your servants; with your friends, you love your friends; with the trees, you love the trees; with the ocean, you love the ocean. You are love. Love is not dependent on the object, but is a radiation of your subjectivity - a radiation of your soul. And the vaster the radiation, the greater is your soul.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Children, Ocean

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• When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in you. As far as the dimension of truth is concerned both are the same, because in the world of the innermost subjectivity height and depth mean the same. It is one dimension: the vertical dimension. Mind moves horizontally, no-mind exists vertically. The moment the mind ceases to function - that's what meditation is all about: cessation of the mind, total cessation of the mind - your consciousness becomes vertical; depth and height are yours.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

  Anthony de Mello

  Eye, Objectivity, Giving

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.74, Image

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• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Astrology, Heaven

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.

  Carlo Carra

  Color, Vision, Use

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• Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Philosophical, Risk, Leap Of Faith

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• But I don't actually adopt the point of view that our subjective impression of free will, which is a kind of indeterminacy behavior, comes from quantum mechanical indeterminacy.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Views, Kind, Free Will

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• On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.

  Agnes Obel

  Thinking, Perspective, Feelings

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• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dedication, Order

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• We have to distinguish between a man as he is in essence, and as he is in ego or personality. In essence, every person is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the person between head, heart, and stomach or between the person and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, karma accumulates, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity; man falls from essence into personality.

  Oscar Ichazo

  Karma, Fall, Heart

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• The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Mind, Consciousness

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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

  Dan Millman

  Thinking, Stronger, Matter

  Dan Millman (1993). “The Life You Were Born to Live: A Guide to Finding Your Life Purpose”, H J Kramer

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• I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Smart, Thinking, People

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