Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Different men often see the same subject in different lights

One's memories aren't what actually happened - they're very subjective. You can always make it much better, right?

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

It is necessary to judge accurately the things that rest on opinion

I always think that's neat, when you can hear a story told from different points of view, different perspectives.

We all look at the same object in different ways.

The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

We see only that which we are.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Remember that all is opinion.

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

In my writing, I focus lenses. I'm almost always seeing when I am writing.