Quotes about Subjectivity
When a god is fashioned into a golden commodity (or even lesser material); divine subject becomes divine object, and agent becomes commodity.
— Walter Brueggemann
so interesting and a really remarkable face, though perhaps not strictly good-looking, and all the more interesting for that, because good-looking people are so often cows.
— Dorothy Sayers
Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
— William Wordsworth
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
— Marquis de Sade
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
— Carl Jung
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
— Oscar Wilde
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
— CS Lewis
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
— William James