Subjectivity Quotes

Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A y...

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what ...

Empiricism assumes that objects can be understood independendy of observing subjects. Truth is there...

Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber ...

I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.

Even more remote from his way of thinking, even more impossible than any other thought, would have b...

And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and str...

Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not,...

Preachers love only their own voices.

Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye t...

The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every ar...

The world is inseparable from the subject, but from a subject which is nothing but a project of the ...

I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young...

We are not our own light.

I only care for the subjective life; I am very German, you see: The woods interest me, and the world...

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw...

Although this was not a comforting point of view, he did not reject it, because it coincided with on...

The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous,...

Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people beco...

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees an...

What Althusser does… is to rethink the concept of ideology in terms of Lacan’s ‘imaginary’. For the ...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...

One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individua...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice whe...

An offering for the sake of offering, perhaps. Anyhow, it was her gift. Nothing else had she of the ...

I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent fla...

[Howard Roark] was asked for a statement, and he received a group of reporters in his office. He spo...