#subjectivity

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

#controlling #dreams #escape #free #into

I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#compassion #death #empathy #mourning #objectivity

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

— Joe Pantoliano

#love #people #subjectivity

Subjectivity as a governing law of the human sphere offers us the talent to cope with many of life’s great stressors. It allows us to balance some of the most complex of social equations, like belief systems and spiritual predispositions. It also, and most importantly, shelters us from the independent indifference of objective reality, which in turn, threatens to challenge our egotistical, self perceived image as the centre of the universe and of all experience. ↗

— Peyton Dracco

#subjectivity #truth #experience

There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to know the contents of our own minds without resort to observation or evidence. It is a mistake, I shall urge, to suppose that these questions can be collapsed into two, or taken into isolation. ↗

— Donald Davidson

#phenomenology #the-other #the-self #the-world #nature

Still the question remains of what actually speaks in a poem, if not subjectivity as historically constructed. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#constructed #historically #poem #question #remains

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. ↗

— Hans-Georg Gadamer

#focus #mirror #subjectivity

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#love #subjectivity #humor

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart? ↗

— James Joyce

#spirituality #subjectivity #women #life

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#i #lose #objectivity #subjectivity #want