Quotes About Subjective Reality

#1. Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

David Brin

#2. In my opinion - which is as good as yours and anybody else's - truth depends on the point of view, on the subjective reality of the observer, and on certain conditions, such as time, place, and the will to be done.

Nema

#3. Mind is everything, there is nothing else as far as your subjective reality is concerned. Everything else outside this subjective reality is irrelevant to biological life.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. Failure is the quintessence to triumph. Fear is a necessity. Whatever is needed in one's life to maintain the universal principle of Chaos should be seasoned and not discouraged. Regardless of whether it's crazy, it's one's subjective reality. That makes it beautiful.

Lionel Suggs

#5. The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#6. I try to photograph what can't be photographed - psychological or subjective reality, which seems more real than physical or consensual reality.

Barbara Ess

#7. You encounter, at its core, a subjective Reality, one based on meaning and value reflective of your own Self, not an objective universe, cold, particle-based and indifferent as science projects.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#8. Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality.

Bhikkhu Bodhi

#9. Every living creature on this planet, has a conscious subjective perspective of the world. The plants may seem to us as standing indifferent to the human sufferings, but even they have their own unique mental universe. They have their own way of interacting with the environment.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. It has been a long time since I believed in Reality. I prefer the loveliness and the terror of my subjective experiences to those coldly scientific explanations which in the long run turn out to be no more real, and far less fun, than my own fantasies and musings.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#11. Psychoanalysis is essentially a theory of unconscious strivings, of resistance, of falsification of reality according to one's subjective needs and expectations.

Erich Fromm

#12. Anytime things were going right for you, the future of the world seemed bright. Anytime they were going wrong, the imminent collapse of civilization was at hand. Can't you see how thoroughly you projected your own subjective vision of reality on the world?

Ryan Boudinot

#13. Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.

Robin Paul Wood

#14. Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

Ernst Haas

#15. We're all subjective beings and trapped in our own realities and our own biographical stories and physical bodies and our histories - and that's the only way we can experience the world.

Charlie Kaufman

#16. All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

Krishna Das

#17. At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Ben Okri

#18. Opinions are secondary when dealing with reality. They're subjective reflections.

Frederick Lenz

#19. The world ultimately is what we say it is.

David Strauss

#20. The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.

Ernst Haas

#21. We insist that society should conform to our own subjective illusion of reality.

Robert Anthony

#22. Yes, well, the subjective experience is the opposite of the objective reality

Ray Kurzweil

#23. Art is the subjective, preferential treatment of certain elements of reality; it selects and resets, distributes light and shade, omits and underlines, softens and emphasises.

Egon Friedell

#24. Lack of insight into each other's private qualia of God, results in a never-ending argument between two people with vastly different conceptions of the term God.

Abhijit Naskar

#25. The icon is transparent as a representation of the special reality it depicts; an idol replaces and obscures that reality ... but the difference between icon and idol is purely subjective.

Kathleen Raine

#26. The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.

William A. Dembski

#27. Ethics is not a mystic fantasy
nor a social convention
nor a dispensable, subjective luxury ... Ethics is an objective necessity of man's survival
not by the grace of the supernatural nor of your neighbors nor of your whims, but the grace of reality and the nature of life.

Ayn Rand

#28. Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

Robert Todd Carroll

#29. But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.

Nenia Campbell

#30. Writing about personal thoughts and observations, subjective feelings and objective reality is a gateway experience that intensifies a person's level of consciousness. Every degree of increased consciousness can lead to increased knowledge of the world and self-understanding.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#31. Attempting to express a person's objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our perception of reality and amends our mental equilibrium.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#32. The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.

Robert M. Pirsig

#33. There is never a right time. Except the time we make right.

Richmond Akhigbe

#34. Perception is like painting a scenery - no matter how beautifully you paint, it will still be a painting of the scenery, not the scenery itself.

Abhijit Naskar

#35. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

John Piper

#36. In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three.

Henry Martin

#37. Most religious individuals do not conceive God in an anthropomorphic or angry way. Rather, in their personal psychological domain of religious or spiritual beliefs, they conceive God in more abstract, spiritual and merciful way.

Abhijit Naskar

#38. Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

Frederik L. Schodt

#39. I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality, he will not achieve even superficial credibility, let alone authenticity and inner truth.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#40. Religion is the subjective experience. Science is the objective reality. To argue either is a ridiculous waste of time and energy.

Steve Maraboli

#41. Our megatechnic culture, based as it is on the strange supposition that subjective malice has no reality and that evils do not exist, except in the sense of reparable mechanical defects, has proved itself incompetent to take on such responsibilities.

Lewis Mumford

#42. True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Willard F. Libby

#43. Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by creating a subjective sense of "presence" and full immersion in the user.

Thomas Metzinger

#44. In the hidden order of reality, there is no distinction between mind and matter. The split between inner and outer - subjective and objective - that we experience in ordinary life is unknown in the deeper reality.

Robert Moss

#45. Justice, of course, was an elusive thing, very subjective in some ways, too often more of a concept than a reality, but without the pursuit of that ideal, where would humanity be?

Linda Lael Miller

#46. It is in [the] process of making something ... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

Joseph C Zinker

#47. Objective Reality and Truth requires neither ones consent nor dissent.

R. Alan Woods

#48. We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#49. Objective reality is a synthetic construct, dealing with a hypothetical universalization of a multitude of subjective realities.

Philip K. Dick

#50. More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

Alfred Adler

#51. Most of the difficult things in golf are mental, not physical. Are subjective, not objective. Are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

Arnold Haultain