Subjectivity Quotes

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

No sane person should believe that something is subjective merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy.

Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.

Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.

We do not know. We can only guess.

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.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

I was concerned with something like the notion of 'language speaking the subject,' and with the transformation of the woman herself into a sign in a system of signs that represent a system of food production, a system of harnessed subjectivity.

"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.

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

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.

All experience is subjective.

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.

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.

Subjectivity is objective.

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.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Our own self-awareness arises not in the Cartesian cogito, but in our finding ourselves in relation to other beings in whom we both actively recognize and do not recognize our own subjectivity, in an inexhaustible dialectic.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.

People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Subjectivity means to catch yourself in the act.

Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.

As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

The point of my explanation is I'm very subjective when it comes to describing my characters: they are all a little bit a part of me from the outside in or the inside out - but to put your mind at ease, I built Paul Snider from the outside in.

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

More rationale decreases subjectivity.

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.

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.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

New York is ultimately not the synthesis but merely the sum of its unfathomable subjectivities, its personal histories, its uncategorisable figures.

Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.

The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

Whatever subjectivity we are going to talk about is going to be in an intersubjectivity of human beings that have a certain nature and have certain needs to be met and have to figure out how exactly to do that.