Subjectives Quotes & Sayings

You tell me to stand still, but I am not walking," he shouted, "whereas you who are walking say you are still. How is it that you are standing still but I am not?"
The Buddha turned round. "My legs move but my mind is still," he said. "Your legs are still but your mind moves all the time in a fire of anger, hatred, and feverish desire. Therefore, I am still but you are not. — Majjhimanikaya

I sometimes feel like I need to pinch myself. I feel extremely fortunate. — John Britt Daniel

Follow your path, and let the people talk. — Dante Alighieri

The perception of other people and the intersubjective world is problematic only for adults. The child lives in a world which he unhesitatingly believes accessible to all around him. He has no awares of himself or of others as private subjectives, nor does he suspect that all of us, himself included, are limited to one certain point of view of the world. That is why he subjects neither his thoughts, in which he believes as they present themselves, to any sort of criticism. He has no knowledge of points of view. For him men are empty heads turned towards one single, self-evident world where everything takes place, even dreams, which are, he thinks, in his room, and even thinking, since it is not distinct from words. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Awake! thou that sleepest, arise from the dead! The Lord still lives today. His power has never abated. His Word has never changed. The things He did in Bible days, He still lives to do today. Not a burden is there He cannot bear nor a fetter He cannot break. — Aimee Semple McPherson

He who hasn't experienced a full depression alone and over a long period of time
he is a child. — Jens Bjorneboe

When we tag ourselves with a particular label, we mustn't be surprised when we attract others looking for our particular item. — Charles F. Glassman

Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. — Alexander Herzen

There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only lend a silent ear. — Henry David Thoreau

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music. — Paul Oakenfold

I tried to get as far away from home as possible after I graduated from high school because I had a hard time being a kid. — Catherine Opie

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different. — Thich Nhat Hanh