Scott Rogowsky Quotes

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

You can't tell someone they are wrong about their own life.

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.

Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.

Seeing a play, listening to music - you'll always contextualize it in your own way. Whoever you are, wherever you are; I think that's really important.

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

Everything is personal.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you will never find there what I find.