Quotes about Subjectivity
Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.
— Samuel Johnson
Astrology provides a brilliant proof of the miserable subjectivity of human beings, as a result of which they relate everything to themselves and go from every thought in a straight line immediately back to themselves. It relates the course of the great celestial bodies to the pathetic I, as it also connects the comets in the sky with earthly quarrels and shabby tricks.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could have no concern for mine and no exact conception of it. That answer is too personal to each man. But in giving himself what he wanted, he gave me a great experience.
— Ayn Rand
Both observer and observed are parts of the world that has an objective existence, and any distinction between them has no meaningful significance. In other words, if you see a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage, it is because there really is a herd of zebras fighting for a spot in the parking garage.
— Stephen Hawking
I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different
— Graham Greene
A picture's beauty does not depend on the things portrayed in it.
— Alain de Botton
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.
— Albert Einstein
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
— Bill Gates
Inaccrochable - A picture a painter paints and then he cannot hang it when he has a show and nobody will buy it because they cannot hang it either. -said by Gertrude Stein
— Ernest Hemingway
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
— Rainbow Rowell