Quotes about Subjectivity

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

One person's disaster is another person's talking point.

Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.

The problem with time is that we are always making it personal.

You are the only person who can label what you do a failure. Failure is subjective.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

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.