{"quotes":[{"text":"We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["amwriting","aphorism","aphorisms","book-club","book-review","book-reviews","books","bored","boredom","ignorance","ignorant","literature","reading","review","reviews","subjective","subjectivity","writers","writing"],"id":3237,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his hair, it is very blond, very light, and people say, he is the good one. And my hair it is very dark, darker than yours even, and people say I am the rogue, you know? I am the bad one. And now time passes, and my hair is gray. His hair too, I think, is gray. And you look at us, you would not know who was light, who was dark.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["subjectivity","time"],"id":7553,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.","author":"Søren Kierkegaard","tags":["faith","philosophy-of-religion","reason","subjectivity","subjectivity-is-truth"],"id":20901,"author_id":"S%C3%B8ren+Kierkegaard"},{"text":"Einer hat immer Unrecht: aber mit zweien beginnt die Wahrheit. Einer kann sich nicht beweisen: aber zweie kann man bereits nicht widerlegen.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["german","proof","right","subjectivity","truth","unrecht","wahrheit"],"id":26794,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will see something clearly articulated, a weak eye will see a blurred patch of colour.","author":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","tags":["perception","perspectivism","subjectivity","taste"],"id":33718,"author_id":"Ludwig+Wittgenstein"},{"text":"I think I am, therefore, I am... I think.","author":"George Carlin","tags":["descartes","humor","philosophy","subjectivity"],"id":41011,"author_id":"George+Carlin"},{"text":"The locus of the human mystery is perception of this world. From it proceeds every thought, every art.","author":"Marilynne Robinson","tags":["perception","subjectivity"],"id":43675,"author_id":"Marilynne+Robinson"},{"text":"When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.","author":"Liezi","tags":["beliefs","cause-and-effect","coincidence","interpretation","perspectivism","projection","reality","relativity","subjectivity","taoism","truth","view"],"id":48974,"author_id":"Liezi"},{"text":"The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous, with its own necessities and patterns. The message they were beating out, over and over, was for her; it was saying, not precisely that she did not exist but rather that it did not matter whether she existed or not, that her presence was of no consequence to the rest of the cosmos. It was a sensation that suddenly paralyzed her with dread. There had never been any question of her “mattering”; it went without saying that she mattered, because she was important to herself. But what was the part of her to which she mattered?","author":"Paul Bowles","tags":["autonomy","drums","existentialism","meaning-of-life","message","observer","subjectivity","the-other"],"id":59013,"author_id":"Paul+Bowles"},{"text":"I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent flame, was being gradually softened and bent by the troubles that oppressed it. In spite of myself, I was conscious of a feeling of envy for those who did not suffer from such troubles, for the wealthy and the privileged; and this envy, I observed, was accompanied—still against my will—by a feeling of bitterness towards them, which, in turn, did not limit its aim to particular persons or situations, but, as if by an uncontrollable bias, tended to assume the general, abstract character of a whole conception of life. In fact, during those difficult days, I came very gradually to feel that my irritation and my intolerance of poverty were turning into a revolt against injustice, and not only against the injustice which struck at me personally but the injustice from which so many others like me suffered. I was quite aware of this almost imperceptible transformation of my subjective resentments into objective reflections and states of mind, owing to the bent of my thoughts which led always and irresistibly in the same direction: owing also to my conversation, which, without my intending it, alway harped upon the same subject. I also noticed in myself a growing sympathy for those political parties which proclaimed their struggle against the evils and infamies of the society to which, in the end I had attributed the troubles that beset me—a society which, as I thought, in reference to myself, allowed its best sons to languish and protected its worst ones. Usually, and in the simpler, less cultivated people, this process occurs without their knowing it, in the dark depths of consciousness where, by a kind of mysterious alchemy, egoism is transmuted into altruism, hatred into love, fear into courage; but to me, accustomed as I was to observing and studying myself, the whole thing was clear and visible, as though I were watching it happen in someone else; and yet I was aware the whole time that I was being swayed by material subjective factors, that I was transforming purely personal motives into universal reasons.","author":"Alberto Moravia","tags":["alienation","categorical-imperative","character","essentialism","free-will","hegel","italy","objectivity","political-animal","subjectivity","universal-reasons"],"id":64198,"author_id":"Alberto+Moravia"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}