Bertrand Russell Quotes

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.

However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.

We are artists. We are all subjective people; we have a point of view. It doesn't mean we are right.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

Everybody's got their own particular vision which is a personal thing.

Opinions can't be inaccurate.

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Music is an experience, not a science.

People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon, and the rounding mind's eye which makes this or that man a type or representative of humanity with the name of hero or saint.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

Originality is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Art is what everyone knows it is.

I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.

I don't want to tell what the songs are about for me, because then people can't decide for themselves, which is why I write; it's for you to find your own meaning in. For me it's my story, for someone else it's theirs; if I tell exactly what it means, then it's only my story.