Quotes about Subjectivity
Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.
- Marquis de Sade
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
- Carl Jung
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
- Oscar Wilde
Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.
- CS Lewis
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
- William James