Quotes about Subjectivity

But in the end, one-sided views make for pretty flat-looking works of art.

Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no one any story but his own.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Why do we say, "That's true for you but not for me," when we're talking about morality or religion, but we never even think of such nonsense when we're talking to a stock broker about our money or a doctor about our health?

Data has an annoying way of conforming itself to support whatever point of view we want it to support.

It is no use trying to sum people up.

To be myself (I note) I need the illumination of other people's eyes, and therefore cannot be entirely sure what is my self.

Half one's notions of other people were, after all, grotesque. They served private purposes of one's own.