Truth Is Subjective Quotes

#1. Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.

Jostein Gaarder

#2. I like to point out that people very often confuse the idea that truth is subjective with the fact that truth is perishable.

Errol Morris

#3. Kierkegaard also said that truth is 'subjective'. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are 'true for me'.

Jostein Gaarder

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

Henry Martin

#5. God, the Creator of everything, is not a person but a power and presence whose work is based on definite principles which we call 'Cosmic Laws' or 'Natural Laws' or 'Universal Laws'.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#6. We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.

Josh McDowell

#7. Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#8. The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.

Sydney J. Harris

#9. No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence
that which makes its truth, its meaning
its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream
alone.

Joseph Conrad

#10. 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

#11. Obviously memoir is subjective truth: It is my memory, my perspective, that's the beauty. But I still wanted to be as factual as I could.

Cheryl Strayed

#12. Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion.

Neal Shusterman

#13. The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

William James

#14. Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, "me first" culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of "truth" as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.

Chip Ingram

#15. The camera is an extension of yourself ... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

Cornell Capa

#16. A photograph isn't necessarily a lie, but nor is it the truth. It's more of a fleeting, subjective impression. What I most like about photography is the moment that you can't anticipate: you have to be constantly watching for it, ready to welcome the unexpected.

Martine Franck

#17. A photograph is not necessarily a lie, but it isn't the truth either. It's more like a fleeting, subjective impression.

John Berger

#18. The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

Lawrence Durrell

#19. A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#20. We should know what our convictions are, and stand for them. Upon one's own philosophy, conscious or unconscious, depends one's ultimate interpretation of facts. Therefore it is wise to be as clear as possible about one's subjective principles. As the man is, so will be his ultimate truth.

C. G. Jung

#21. Science and Spirituality are two sides of the same coin and we cannot separate one from the other. Science is trying to find the truth in an objective or physical manner where as spirituality tries it subjectively or metaphysically.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#22. For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

Deepak Chopra

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

David Brin

#24. I think you're always subjective because you always have a point of view, but I'm always sort of curious about what is the point of view I don't agree with. There is a truth in that because there always is.

Margaret Brown

#25. 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

#26. Good and bad are illusions. What exists is either the presence of empathy or the lack of it. I think this should become the new, clear definition of how we see people. No more "good" and no more "bad". Those terms are highly subjective.

C. JoyBell C.

#27. Myth is truth which is subjective, intuitive, cultural and grounded in faith.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#28. Truth is such a subjective thing.

Josh Tickell

#29. 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

#30. A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.

Alain Badiou

#31. 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

#32. 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