Subjectivity Quotes

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Lacan , Derrida and Foucault are the perfect prophets for the weak, anxious academic personality, trapped in verbal formulas and perennially defeated by circumstances. They offer a self-exculpating cosmic explanation for the normal professorial state of resentment, alienation, dithering passivity and inaction.

When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Say not, ' I have found the path of the soul.' Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path.' For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.

Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and they all stink.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own imagination.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

All the world old is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Just because you're offended, doesn't mean you're right.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

No man is a hero to his valet.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mover, or as object to subject, because the determining factors that radiate outward from the self surround the ego on all sides and are therefore supraordinate to it. The self, like the unconscious, as an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves. It is, so to speak, an unconscious prefiguration of the ego. It is not I who create myself; rather, I happen to myself.

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.

Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.

The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black, the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.