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  • Every story about the loss of innocence is really about someone's private reenactment of the fall from grace, since we experience it not collectively but individually and subjectively.†   (source)
  • It was internal: it was subjective: it was not knowing.†   (source)
  • In truth, the tests were subjective at best, one exploding bottle difficult to compare to another.†   (source)
  • And the judging is totally subjective.†   (source)
  • So it is pretty subjective then?†   (source)
  • Or, he could take the right horn, and refute the idea that subjectivity implies "anything you like."†   (source)
  • Otherwise you're being subjective in a way that is not at all fair to the accused.†   (source)
  • Hegel said that 'truth is subjective/ thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason.†   (source)
  • "Most of bird identification is based on a sort of subjective impression—the way a bird moves and little instantaneous appearances at different angles and sequences of different appearances, and as it turns its head and as it flies and as it turns around, you see sequences of different shapes and angles," Sibley says.†   (source)
  • It's the kind of human junk that deepens the landscape, makes it sadder and lonelier and places a vague sad subjective regret at the edge of your response—not regret so much as a sense of time's own esthetic, how strange and still and beautiful a chunk of concrete can be, lived in fleetingly and abandoned, the soul of wilderness signed by men and women passing through.†   (source)
  • Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women.†   (source)
  • His editor, however, canned the idea as "too subjective" and suggested he write something about the excessive use of antibiotics in chicken feed, which had the potential to turn streptococcus into the next bubonic plague.†   (source)
  • He knew the change was subjective and would never reverse itself.†   (source)
  • Your code-which boasts that it upholds eternal, absolute, objective moral values and scorns the conditional, the relative and the subjective —your code hands out, as its version of the absolute, the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it, it's evil; if others wish it, it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare, don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others, then anything goes.†   (source)
  • It's not subjective.†   (source)
  • It's totally subjective!†   (source)
  • Zillah's lintscapes are termed "subjective,"†   (source)
  • "I wish that I could have a drink," Mike answered wistfully, "as I have wondered about the subjective effect of ethanol on the human nervous system—I conjecture that it must be similar to a slight overvoltage.†   (source)
  • The taste of the mice — a purely subjective factor and not in the least relevant to the experiment — was pleasing, if rather bland.†   (source)
  • The time as we know it subjectively is often the chronology that stories and novels follow: it is the continuous thread of revelation.†   (source)
  • One quality of such places as I am trying to define is that a very large part of them is personal and subjective.†   (source)
  • Kierkegaard also said that truth is 'subjective.'†   (source)
  • Either Quality is objective or subjective, therefore he was impaled no matter how he answered.†   (source)
  • Could you give an example of a subjective truth?†   (source)
  • And by God, it wasn't subjective or objective either, it was beyond both of those categories.†   (source)
  • But subjective pleasure wasn't what he meant by Quality either.†   (source)
  • Or is it subjective, existing only in the observer?†   (source)
  • If he accepted the other premise that Quality was subjective, he was impaled on the other horn.†   (source)
  • Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say.†   (source)
  • This is what led him at first to think that maybe Quality is all subjective.†   (source)
  • But we know from Phaedrus' metaphysics that the harmony Poincaré talked about is not subjective.†   (source)
  • The knife of subjectivity-and-objectivity had cut Quality in two and killed it as a working concept.†   (source)
  • Absolute Mind was independent too, both of objectivity and subjectivity.†   (source)
  • Or he could go between the horns and deny that subjectivity and objectivity are the only choices.†   (source)
  • Did he not realize how subjective Alice's visions were.'†   (source)
  • "Murderis a subjective term," Maggie hissed.†   (source)
  • Because women are a subjective mystery, not an objective one.†   (source)
  • "Humanis a subjective term as well, Magnolia," Jared said, glowering at her.†   (source)
  • The intensely personal nature of his business, the subjectivity of taste, the variables of light and curtains and carpets, guaranteed that minds would reevaluate and work would have to be redone.†   (source)
  • He knew how constantly he had been terrorized, but did he know how much of his own subjective reality, once so strong he had taken it for granted, had been erased?†   (source)
  • Such an enclosure is subjectively neither better nor worse for an animal than its condition in the wild; so long as it fulfills the animal's needs, a territory, natural or constructed, simply is, without judgment, a given, like the spots on a leopard.†   (source)
  • So we have looked at what Kierkegaard meant by 'existential,' what he meant by 'subjective truth,' and what his concept of 'faith' was.†   (source)
  • Hegel calls this subjective spirit.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus could simply have said, "The attempt to classify Quality as subjective or objective is an attempt to define it.†   (source)
  • The preselection of facts is not based on subjective, capricious "whatever you like" but on Quality, which is reality itself.†   (source)
  • He then went on with other scientific concepts, one by one, showing how they could not possibly exist independently of subjective considerations.†   (source)
  • At this point the whole subjective horn of the dilemma looked almost as uninspiring as the objective one.†   (source)
  • Quality is not subjective, he said.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, if Quality is subjective, existing only in the observer, then this Quality that you make so much of is just a fancy name for whatever you like.†   (source)
  • What the classical formalists meant by the objection "Quality is just what you like" was that this subjective, undefined "quality" he was teaching was just romantic surface appeal.†   (source)
  • When he said Quality was subjective, to them he was just saying Quality is imaginary and could therefore be disregarded in any serious consideration of reality.†   (source)
  • The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true, picture of reality.†   (source)
  • To leave the impression in the scientific world that the source of all scientific reality is merely a subjective, capricious harmony is to solve problems of epistemology while leaving an unfinished edge at the border of metaphysics that makes the epistemology unacceptable.†   (source)
  • Squares, he said, because of their prejudices toward intellectuality usually regard Quality, the preintellectual reality, as unimportant, a mere uneventful transition period between objective reality and subjective perception of it.†   (source)
  • If subjectivity is eliminated as unimportant, he said, then the entire body of science must be eliminated with it.†   (source)
  • Quality is opposed to subjectivity.†   (source)
  • Actually this whole dilemma of subjectivity-objectivity, of mind-matter, with relationship to Quality was unfair.†   (source)
  • Quality decreases subjectivity.†   (source)
  • And finally: Phaedrus, following a path that to his knowledge had never been taken before in the history of Western thought, went straight between the horns of the subjectivity-objectivity dilemma and said Quality is neither a part of mind, nor is it a part of matter.†   (source)
  • He began to work on these questions a Iittle at a time, the way most people do, running an objective set of facts through a bath of various chemicals which, when taken together, make up the complex human perceptual mechanism known as subjectivity.†   (source)
  • In truth, categorizing talents is a subjective, haphazard business; every talent is unique, never exactly the same thing twice.†   (source)
  • But this was a subjective perception of something that he had felt, not a journalist's measured observation of a concrete phenomenon.†   (source)
  • The obsession of the latter isepic, and women see nothing the least bit touching in it: the man projects no subjective ideal on women, and since everything interests him, nothing can disappoint him.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the reality of subjective sensations, desires and--may we even say--illusions, composes the basic substance of our existence, and religion alone, in its many forms, attempts to address, organize, and placate these.†   (source)
  • Those were subjective impressions, however, and no matter how detailed such descriptions were, they could not lead Mercy to the answers that he had hoped to get from her.†   (source)
  • Once all his thoughts and images have been flung aside or, if retained, retained with a full recognition of their merely subjective nature, and the man trusts himself to the completely real, external, invisible Presence, there with him in the room and never knowable by him as he is known by it--why, then it is that the incalculable may occur.†   (source)
  • But something was missing in my imaginative efforts; my flights of imagination were too subjective, too lacking in reference to social action.†   (source)
  • The tradition of the "subjectively known forms" (Sanskrit: antarjneya-rupa) is, in fact, coextensive with the tradition of myth, and is the key to the understanding and use of mythological images—as will appear abundantly in the following chapters.†   (source)
  • My purpose was to capture a physical state or movement that carried a strong subjective impression, an accomplishment which seemed supremely worth struggling for.†   (source)
  • Thus in birth the blood and pain are "real", the rejoicing a mere subjective point of view; in death, the terror and ugliness reveal what death "really means".†   (source)
  • The hatefulness of a hated person is "real"--in hatred you see men as they are, you are disillusioned; but the loveliness of a loved person is merely a subjective haze concealing a "real" core of sexual appetite or economic association.†   (source)
  • The general rule which we have now pretty well established among them is that in all experiences which can make them happier or better only the physical facts are "Real" while the spiritual elements are "subjective"; in all experiences which can discourage or corrupt them the spiritual elements are the main reality and to ignore them is to be an escapist.†   (source)
  • All this irritation is purely subjective.†   (source)
  • Marilla was not given to subjective analysis of her thoughts and feelings.†   (source)
  • Thanks so much, I'm feeling almost normal, subjectively at least.†   (source)
  • Then I looked at Wolf Larsen, but there was nothing subjective about his state of consciousness.†   (source)
  • Is it possible that love is all subjective, or all objective?†   (source)
  • It's no longer a matter of a subjective feeling now, but of precise evidence.†   (source)
  • He was, in fact, commanding destiny, subjectively.†   (source)
  • Of love as a spectacle Bathsheba had a fair knowledge; but of love subjectively she knew nothing.†   (source)
  • Having found that "subjective and objective, sir," answered most of the questions, he used the phrase on all occasions, and it became the class joke when, on a query being levelled at him, he was nudged awake by Ferrenby or Sloane to gasp it out.†   (source)
  • Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences.†   (source)
  • They seemed nothing more now than the purely subjective, impotent, illusory creatures of my temperament.†   (source)
  • He was small, as I have said; I was struck besides with the shocking expression of his face, with his remarkable combination of great muscular activity and great apparent debility of constitution, and—last but not least— with the odd, subjective disturbance caused by his neighbourhood.†   (source)
  • And 50, at an age when it would appear—since one seeks in love before everything else a subjective pleasure—that the taste for feminine beauty must play the larger part in its procreation, love may come into being, love of the most physical order, without any foundation in desire.†   (source)
  • The socialist magazines, a great smattering of Tolstoi, and his own intense longing for a cause that would bring out whatever strength lay in him, had finally decided him to preach peace as a subjective ideal.†   (source)
  • Time, although the subjective experience of it may be weakened or even abrogated, is an objective reality to the extent that it is active and "brings forth."†   (source)
  • …cruelly since, being ignorant of his love, incapable, had they known of it, of taking any interest, or of doing more than smile at it as at some childish joke, or deplore it as an act of insanity, they made it appear to him in the aspect of a subjective state which existed for himself alone, whose reality there was nothing external to confirm; he suffered overwhelmingly, to the point at which even the sound of the instruments made him want to cry, from having to prolong his exile in…†   (source)
  • It's a good wall, good logs that seem to give off a certain warmth, to the extent you can speak of warmth in this case—the discreet, peculiar warmth of wood, though it may be more a matter of mood, more subjective.†   (source)
  • In matters of love, a woman, as nearly as I can determine, primarily regards herself as simply an object, she lets things come at her, she does not choose freely, she makes her own subjective choice in love only on the basis of the man's choice, so that, if you will permit me to add this final point, her freedom of choice— presuming, of course, that the man in question is not too sorry a specimen, and even that cannot be regarded as all too strict a requirement—her freedom of choice,…†   (source)
  • It continued to glow as a dry, subjective flush in his pink face, a reminder that for this child of the lowlands with their intoxicatingly damp meteorology, acclimatization consisted primarily of getting used to not getting used to things—which, by the way, Rhadamanthus himself, with his purple cheeks, had never done.†   (source)
  • We are not subjectively aware of them, they exist only in the world of objective events—and that's that.†   (source)
  • So that you really could not call it ironclad objectivity; there was more freedom and subjectivity to it than Leo Naphta would have been willing to admit—it was in its own way just as "political" as Herr Settembrini's didactic statement that freedom was the law of brotherly love.†   (source)
  • What constituted man's true state and condition: obliteration in all-devouring, all-leveling community, which was a simultaneously voluptuous and ascetic act; or "critical subjectivity," where bombast and strict bourgeois virtue were at loggerheads?†   (source)
  • It was no longer a simple case of lending assistance to the medium's subjectivity so that it might find a mirror in reality, but rather—at least partially, at least tentatively—certain "selves" from outside, from beyond, got mixed up in things; what they were dealing with—possibly, though never expressly admitted—were nonvital elements, entities that used the convoluted, furtive opportunity of the moment to return to matter and manifest themselves to whoever called them—in short, the…†   (source)
  • And his homage was genuine, rooted deep within his nature; for, as he himself explained, Judaism—thanks to its earthy, practical character, its socialism, its political spirituality—was far nearer to the Catholic sphere, was incomparably more closely related to it, than to the self-absorption and mystical subjectivity of Protestantism; this meant that it was decidedly less intellectually disruptive for a Jew to convert to the Roman church than for a Protestant to do so.†   (source)
  • …and larger social units, and so was wedded to a bourgeois morality that was tied to life, understood life as an end in itself, saw its sole purpose in unheroic utility, and viewed all moral law as invested in the state; whereas he, Naphta—well aware that mankind's inner conflict was based instead on the contradiction between what the senses register and what transcends the senses—represented true, mystical individualism and was in actuality the genuine man of freedom and subjectivity.†   (source)
  • The conversations were miles beyond Jo's comprehension, but she enjoyed it, though Kant and Hegel were unknown gods, the Subjective and Objective unintelligible terms, and the only thing 'evolved from her inner consciousness' was a bad headache after it was all over.†   (source)
  • An inevitable dualism bisects nature, so that each thing is a half, and suggests another thing to make it whole; as, spirit, matter; man, woman; odd, even; subjective, objective; in, out; upper, under; motion, rest; yea, nay.†   (source)
  • There was something too mysterious, too subjective in these last words of his, perhaps obscure to himself, but yet torturing him.†   (source)
  • His teaching was as the German philosophy calls it, 'subjective'; it was to benefit himself, not others.†   (source)
  • He was not what is called subjective, though when he felt that her interest was sincere, he made an almost heroic attempt to be.†   (source)
  • This however, of course, was but a subjective fact, as the metaphysicians say; the confusion, the noise of waters, all the rest of it, were in her own swimming head.†   (source)
  • It affected her moreover as a peaceful interlude, as a hush of the drum and fife in a career which she had little warrant as yet for regarding as agitated, but which nevertheless she was constantly picturing to herself by the light of her hopes, her fears, her fancies, her ambitions, her predilections, and which reflected these subjective accidents in a manner sufficiently dramatic.†   (source)
  • These were the mental conditions on which Mrs. Tulliver had undertaken to act persuasively, and had failed; a fact which may receive some illustration from the remark of a great philosopher, that fly-fishers fail in preparing their bait so as to make it alluring in the right quarter, for want of a due acquaintance with the subjectivity of fishes.†   (source)
  • It has been observed more than once that the causes of love are chiefly subjective, and Boldwood was a living testimony to the truth of the proposition.†   (source)
  • Amor matris: subjective and objective genitive.†   (source)
  • Amor matris, subjective and objective genitive, may be the only true thing in life.†   (source)
  • …expressing one's state of mind, but partially or timidly," as /to allot upon/ (for /to count upon/), /to calculate/, /to expect/ (/to think/ or /believe/), /to guess/, /to reckon/. i. "Certain adjectives, expressing not only quality, but one's subjective feelings in regard to it," as /clever/, /grand/, /green/, /likely/, /smart/, /ugly/. j. Abridgments, as /stage/ (for /stage-coach/), /turnpike/ (for /turnpike-road/), /spry/ (for /sprightly/), /to conduct/ (for /to conduct one's…†   (source)
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