Reality Is Subjective Quotes

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

Robin Paul Wood

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Robert Todd Carroll

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

Krishna Das

#6. 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

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

Erich Fromm

#8. 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

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

David Strauss

#10. 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

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

Ray Kurzweil

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Philip K. Dick

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

David Brin

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Steve Maraboli

#27. 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

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

Henry Martin

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Richmond Akhigbe

#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. 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