If you like it, you'll find a way to justify it. But if you don't , you'll find ways to falsify it. — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“In the search for truth, what you believe matters less than how you believe.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“[T]he 'subject-in-process' [is] a term I use heuristically to capture the idea that subjectivity is constituted (by language, discourse, or power), inessential… — Moya Lloyd Copy Share Image
Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith - when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith - this… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world does not.” — Ouida Copy Share Image
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events. — Teresa de Lauretis Copy Share Image
“We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain,… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
Art is a subjective thing, and it should be a subjective thing. And the difficulty of subjectivity is that it becomes hugely… — Tim Crouch Copy Share Image
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if… — Agnes Obel Copy Share Image
I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times.… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
“A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my -- dealer -- here tells me… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“Daisuke was the sort of man who, once he was disturbed by something, no matter what, could not let go of it… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“He noted that although normally you associate Quality with objects, feelings of Quality sometimes occur without any object at all. This is… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Domination and critique have always formed an apparatus covertly against a common hostis: the conspirator, who works under cover, who used everything… — Tiqqun Copy Share Image
“I receive the reward for my willingness to participate in the object-subject reversal in the form of a private illumination - in… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
We have traditionally thought of knowing in terms of subject and object and have struggled to attain objectivity by detaching our subjectivity.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is true that no objective research can be done on it, but that does not mean that this subjective world does… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Does my subjectivity shape the book? Of course it does, and that dynamic can be bad or good, or both! For example,… — Alan Kreider Copy Share Image
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory… — Grant H. Kester Copy Share Image
I think it's time to admit that our writing is guided by the technology we use as much as it is by… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
We hide so well. This is the bottom line: how hidden is male subjectivity? Name five books where male subjectivity is produced… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that… — Richard Donner Copy Share Image
Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective. — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think the act of lying can be separated from the genre of memoir. Though often times, people are unaware of their… — Rob Roberge Copy Share Image
“You can't do clear observation if you ain't in the field. You can't be a pure observer if you're now in the… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image