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“My photographs are subjective and personal-they’r e intended to be accessible, to relate to people’s lives... People-their well-being and survival-are the crux of what’s important to me.”

People Wells Important Survival Photograph Relate Well Being Subjective What's Important Crux

Author:Roy DeCarava

“We've created this cottage industry in which it pays to be un-objective. It pays to be subjective as much as possible. It's a great way to have your cake and eat it too. Criticize other people for not being objective. Be as subjective as you want. It's a great little racket. I'm glad we found it actually.”

Want Littles Found Glad Subjective Racket

Author:Matt Labash

“Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences, never understanding the connection between outer and inner phenomena or interdependent phenomena, looking for explanations only from objects through nihilist habit instead of from the subjective experience of their own minds.”

Thinking Mind Understanding Objects Habit Negative Connections Explanation Subjective Westerners Nihilist Negative And Positive

Author:Thinley Norbu

“Reality is neither subjective nor objective, neither mind nor matter, neither time nor space. These divisions need somebody to happen to, a conscious separate center. But reality is all and nothing, the totality and the exclusion, the fullness and the emptiness, fully consistent, absolutely paradoxical. You cannot speak about it, you can only lose yourself in it.”

Needs Mind Matter Reality Happens Speak Loses Space Conscious Objectives Emptiness Consistent Division Subjective Fullness Totality Exclusion Paradoxical Losing Yourself

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.”

Matter Strong Nature Smell Delicate Scent Perfume Subjective Fragrance Gardener Stink

Author:Katharine Sergeant Angell White

“I don't think it's necessary to put your feelings about photography in words. I've read things that photographers have written for exhibitions and so forth about their subjective feelings about photography and mostly I think it's disturbing. I think they're fooling themselves very often. They're just talking, they're not saying anything.”

Thinking Feelings Talking Written Photography Photographer Subjective Disturbing Exhibitions

Author:Eliot Porter

“All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...”

“The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.”

Persons Values Our Relationship Subjective

Author:Natalia Kills

“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.”

Ifs Want Objects Subjective Preoccupation Bamboo

Author:Matsuo Basho

“Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and formless, realize that every mode of perception is subjective, that what is seen or heard, touched or smelled, felt or thought, expected or imagined, is in the mind and not in reality, and you will experience peace and freedom from fear.”

Mind Looks Reality Names Felt Realizing Imagination Heard Shapes Perception Expected Touched Subjective Distortion Nameless

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.”

“To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.”

Giving Looks Objectives Shock Psychics Subjective Afar

Author:Julian Barnes

“I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.”

Thinking Subjective Sexiness

Author:David Fincher

“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”

Ideas Objectives Subjective

Author:A. D. Gordon

“I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.”

People Want Position Materials Subjective

Author:Sarah Silverman

“Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.”

Important Law Quality Policy Judging Duty Standards Court Passing Passings Fairness Subjective Legislators Public Policy

Author:Gary Bauer

“Independence is a very subjective assessment.”

Independence Subjective Assessment

Author:P. Chidambaram

“The problem of good as it faces the atheist is this: Nature, which is the nuts-and-bolts reality for the atheist, has no values and thus can offer no grounding for good and evil. Values on the atheist view are subjective and contingent.”

Problem Reality Faces Values Evil Views Offers Atheist Good And Evil Nuts Subjective Bolts Grounding Nuts And Bolts

Author:William A. Dembski

“Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite. The only true cinema verite would be what Andy Warhol did with his film about the Empire State Building - eight hours or so from one angle, and even then it's not really cinema verite, because you aren't actually there.”

States Would Be Film Hours Building Eight Cinema Empires Realism Angle Subjective Warhol Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Crispin Glover

“Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.”

Beautiful Subjective

Author:Jacques Audiard

“There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.”

Ifs Art Problem Example Art Is Subjective

Author:Danny Huston

“...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.”

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