So it`s clear from whence the history of philosophy is the inner movement of the course of spirit, that is, of absolute subjectivity, towards itself.
- Martin HeideggerAs the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
- Martin HeideggerI don`t try to sympathise with my characters, I just try to empathise with them. To try to understand. If I sympathised with the characters I would make idealised, romantic characters out of them, which I don`t do. I don`t idealise them, I just do normal characters, not very sympathetic, but just the way they are. I think I do this in films that are made in the shape of a question, not in the shape of an answer. They just try to make a very open statement and it is down to anyone`s subjectivity to find his own answer to that.
- Isabelle HuppertWhere conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.
- John Searle