Top 100 Quotes About Subjectivity
#1. Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one's keyboard.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#2. We must be those who build on the rock-solid foundation of mind-engaging process, rather than on the shifting sands of 'what this verse means to me' subjectivity.
Jen Wilkin
#3. How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?
Jonathan Crary
#4. [O]mnipotence is nothing else than subjectivity exempting itself from all objective conditions and limitations[.]
Ludwig Feuerbach
#5. We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.
Vijay Seshadri
#6. Neither objectivity nor subjectivity seem to make much sense.
Marty Rubin
#7. Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.
Massimiliano Gioni
#8. How could this next thought define your subjectivity at all?
Sam Harris
#9. Subjectivity is my middle name, a trick memory is my pack mule, and self-contradiction is my trusty old jackknife.
Luc Sante
#11. The struggle for subjectivity is a battle to win the right to have access to difference, variation and metamorphosis.
Charles J. Stivale
#12. 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.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#13. Atisha says: Awareness inside, compassion on the outside. Compassion is the outer side of awareness, the exterior of awareness. Awareness is your interiority, subjectivity. Compassion is relating with others, sharing with others.
Osho
#15. We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced in an honest way.
Junot Diaz
#16. I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their own subjectivity.
Rob Roberge
#17. The new Turkish identity, which I call Muslim nationalism, is that of a pious Muslim Turk whose subjectivity and vision for the future is shaped by an imperial Ottoman past overlaid onto a republican state framework, but divorced from the Kemalist state project.
Jenny White
#18. 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.
Ravi Zacharias
#19. The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity. The two partners merge in this ambiguous unity; each one is freed of his own presence and achieves immediate communication with the other.
Simone De Beauvoir
#20. Biblical exegesis without controls is apt to run away into total subjectivity.
Gordon Wenham
#21. A man who wants the truth becomes a scientist; a man who wants to give free play to his subjectivity may become a writer; but what should a man do who wants something in between?
Robert Musil
#22. Subjectivity measures nothing consistently.
Toba Beta
#23. Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.
Jason Silva
#24. My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road
Marek Edelman
#25. Mozart's music is an invitation to the listener to venture just a little out of the sense of his own subjectivity.
Karl Barth
#26. Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.
Thomas Metzinger
#27. Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#28. Wittig appears to take issue with genitally organized sexuality per se and to call for an alternative economy of pleasures which would both contest the construction of female subjectivity marked by women's supposedly distinctive reproductive function.
Judith Butler
#29. Real health has to happen somewhere inside you, in your subjectivity, in your consciousness, because consciousness knows no birth, no death. It is eternal. To be healthy in consciousness means: first, to be awake; second, to be harmonious; third, to be ecstatic; and fourth, to be compassionate.
Rajneesh
#30. while "freedom" from magic is certainly invoked as a constitutive element of modern modes of subjectivity, this freedom is purchased only at the price of potent new forms of social control and regimentation."
-- Making Magic, p. 13
Randall Styers
#31. More rationale decreases subjectivity.
Sol Sender
#32. With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
William Boyd
#33. I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.
Vincent Gallo
#34. Subjectivity is strange to Science, while Relativity is an objective part of it.
Felix Alba-Juez
#35. Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh sound of the outside world just as the sensitive soul stands against the insensibility of the universe.
Milan Kundera
#36. We've come to understand over the past hundred years that information is colored with subjectivity: What we know depends on how we interpret our information base.
William Badke
#37. Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity.
Alfred North Whitehead
#38. I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.
David Hurn
#39. The linking of rationality with mysticism, knowability with what is unknown, makes it a powerful fetish that offers its programmers and users alike a sense of empowerment, of sovereign subjectivity, that covers over-barely-a sense of profound ignorance.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
#41. For if thought that exceeds what has yet been
thought were not possible, the infinite would not be possible, and self/
itself or subjectivity its intermediary transcendence/ incendiary.
Erin Moure
#42. 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.
Deepak Chopra
#43. 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.
Martha Rosler
#44. Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity is often masked when your in a group because laughter is contagious.
Robert Mankoff
#45. There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian ... and on the other hand the atheistic existentialists, among whom ... I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#46. Quantitative methods are no more synonymous with objectivity than qualitative methods are synonymous with subjectivity.
Mike Patton
#47. Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#48. I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
Zoe Kazan
#49. When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.
James Balog
#50. The absolutist takes himself to speak to the ages, with the tongue of angels, but the relativist hears only one version among others, the subjectivity of the here and now.
Simon Blackburn
#51. Subjectivity ceases to exist only when the mutation-like leap is made from subjectivity to objectivity, from individual existence to universal existence.
Piet Mondrian
#52. The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that ... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration.
Tino Sehgal
#53. Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.
Bell Hooks
#54. Religion for them [Iranians] was like a promise and guarantee of finding something that would radically change their subjectivity
Michel Foucault
#55. Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this [is] subjectivity ... at its height.
Soren Kierkegaard
#56. To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Teresa De Lauretis
#57. Action is stronger than subjectivity. No matter what you feel or think, you can still act.
Dan Millman
#58. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.
Ingmar Bergman
#59. To the Austrian economics of subjectivity, time provides an objective foundation.
George Gilder
#60. As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
Martin Heidegger
#61. Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.
Langdon Brown Gilkey
#62. The Gita itself values subjectivity: after concluding his counsel, Krishna tells Arjuna to reflect on what has been said, and then do as he feels (yatha-ichasi-tatha-kuru). Even
Devdutt Pattanaik
#63. But I know my only defense is to answer, "I think it because it is true," thereby eliminating my subjectivity;
Simone De Beauvoir
#64. The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
Susan Sontag
#66. objectivity arose from subjectivity - the recognition that two minds could have different representations of the world and that the world has an existence independent of either representation. This
Richard E. Nisbett
#67. Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.
Susan Sontag
#68. Though I thought there weren't any words any more, only fucking signifiers. And since texts have no objective univocal meaning, I feel sure that when I call you a bunch of moronic cunts you will be able to decode that sequence of sequential signifiers with the appropriate emancipated subjectivity.
Jonathan Lynn
#69. Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
John Searle
#70. 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.
John Milbank
#71. Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely problematized when you start applying large sums of money to art objects. That's where it all starts to get a bit sticky.
Tim Crouch
#72. The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#73. The notion of a conscious model of oneself as an individual entity actively trying to establish epistemic relations to the world and to oneself, I think, comes very close to what we traditionally mean by notions like "subjectivity".
Thomas Metzinger
#74. In the midst of nature's savagery, human beings sometimes (rarely) succeed in creating small oases warmed by love. Small, exclusive, enclosed spaces governed only by love and shared subjectivity.
Andy Miller
#75. I emerged in that incredible moment in the 1980s when all kinds of social questions about subjectivity and objectivity, about who was making, who was looking.
Carrie Mae Weems
#76. 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.
Miguel Syjuco
#77. For me, I had to overcome shyness to be an actor. But as a director, you lose your subjectivity, your self-consciousness. And instead of just your role, it's the life of the whole play that becomes a reflection of you.
Gene Saks
#78. 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.
Eikoh Hosoe
#79. The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.
Jack London
#80. The very nature of the objective universe turns any spiritual faith and ideals into courageous acts of subjectivity, constantly vulnerable to intellectual negation.
Richard Tarnas
#81. 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.
Raoul Vaneigem
#82. The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.
Martin Buber
#83. In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.
Shashi Tharoor
#84. When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.
James H. Austin
#85. In the heart of consciousness is subjectivity, this sense of having a self that observes one's own organism and the world around that organism. That is really the heart of consciousness.
Antonio Damasio
#86. A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.
Stephen Chow
#87. One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.
Paulo Freire
#88. Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'
Elizabeth Thornton
#89. Truth is the aim of story. And though we must take into account the human author's subjectivity and personal slant, the best authors are those who tap universal longings and make connections to our real, lived humanity.
Sarah Arthur
#90. But it is INTERESTING trying to get a handle on one's own subjectivity
something to think about, to play around with, and what's more fun than that?
Philip Roth
#92. Our subjectivity is so completely our own.
Spike Jonze
#93. The chief vestige of subjectivity is the fallacy that everybody else also cares about the same things as the observer, and/or lives in his/her exact same state of mind
Stephan Attia
#94. 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.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#95. In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has traditionally been "a prime tool in socialization" and is "centrally bound in with questions of authority".
Ann Romines
#96. The subconscious mind is nothing but an energy field or mental level that resonates in line with the universal subjectivity.
Stephen Richards
#97. It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.
Joe Pantoliano
#98. Even though, there are many who describe themselves as Christian, most do not heed to God's word without subjectivity.
Monica Johnson
#99. Truth is neither ojectivity nor the balanced view; truth is a selfless subjectivity.
Knut Hamsun
#100. We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the material of color is expressed in all of the manifold possibilities our subjectivity can create.
Carlo Carra
