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“Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.”

Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

“I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission.”

Source: On Being Human

“It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling.”

Book Historian Academic Subjective Criteria Objectivity

Author:Gotz Aly

“The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs”

May Truth Belief Quality Air Formulas Suspicion Superiority Subjective Elegance Objectivity Literal Usefulness Residual

Book:Pragmatism and Other Writings

Source: Pragmatism and Other Writings

“I've always been a visual person, I'm formerly a graphic designer. I've always seen myself as an observer. I like to maintain objectivity and don't get too intimately involved in my subjects.”

Persons Subjects Involved Designer Visuals Observers Objectivity Graphic Graphic Designer

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.”

Made Ends Middle Boring Myth Clever Opening Features Articles Nonfiction Objectivity Basics

Author:Lee Gutkind

“The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.”

Reason Facts Observation Objectivity Parades Fetish Grounding Absolutism

Book:Truth: A Guide

Source: Truth: A Guide

“Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.”

Giving Ideas Fall Belief Study Doubt Humility Reasonable Good Ideas Objectivity Pitfalls Reasonable Doubt Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

Author:Robert A. Burton

“An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.”

Giving Views Objectives Experts Objectivity

Author:Morarji Desai

“No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.”

People Thinking Needs Believe Stills Matter Principles Honest Scientist Various Sentences Psychological Assumption Unconscious Objectivity Forts Gullible Psychological Needs

Author:Colin Wilson

“Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.”

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Author:Sam Harris

“We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.”

Facts Saws Prejudice Mere Planes Objectivity Parades Ornaments

Author:Paul Eldridge

“Objectivity consists in understanding that the only one who never makes a mistake is the one who never does anything.”

Doe Understanding Mistake Objectivity

Author:Vladimir Kramnik

“Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.”

Giving Trying Mean Doe Sides Views Equal Hearing Objectivity

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.”

Giving Mean Sides Hearing Objectivity

Author:Christiane Amanpour

“There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.”

Real Opinion Strive Journalist Objectivity

Author:Asne Seierstad

“Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.”

Writing Stories Economy Criminals Lists Remarkable Frightening Warfare Harsh Vengeance Objectivity Starks Understatement

Author:Anthony Boucher

“Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges”

Mean Feminist Objectivity

Author:Donna J. Haraway

“The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.”

Doe Loss Liberty Moral Practice Tyranny Oppression Ideology Liberation Secular Objectivity

Author:Nancy Pearcey

“Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.”

Emotion Expression Circumstances Speech Stress Objectivity Adjectives Moss Dank

Author:Ezra Pound

“When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to catch life going by me - that I wasn't to alter it or tamper with it - that I was just to watch what was going on and report it as best I could. This shoot with John was different. I got involved, and I realized that you can't help but be touched by what goes on in front of you. I no longer believe that there is such a thing as objectivity.”

Believe Different Whole Helping I Believe White Watches Fronts Goes On Involved Approach I Realized Reports Touched Objectivity Journalistic

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.”

Hate Personality Hatred Unity Cancer Hated Objectivity Hatred And Anger Strength And Love

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.”

“For us, mind has nature for its premise, being nature's truth and for that reason its absolute prius. In this truth nature has vanished, and mind has resulted as the idea arrived at being-for-itself, the object of which, as well as the subject, is the concept. This identity is absolute negativity, for whereas in nature the concept has its perfect external objectivity, this its alienation has been superseded, and in this alienation the concept has become identical with itself. But it is this identity therefore, only in being a return out of nature.”

Mind Wells Has Beens Ideas Reason Perfect Subjects Identity Objects Return Concepts Absolutes Negativity Alienation Premises Identical Objectivity Prius

Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.”

Way Facts Study Quantum Mechanic Objectivity Quantum Mechanics

Book:The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics

Source: The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics

“Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.”

“After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner of the country, I took the movie to twenty film festivals or something to that extent. I've lost track. Probably done Q&As 40-50 times at this point. It's always hard to watch something I've made, but I've got a little more objectivity and kind of see the film as not just an extension of myself.”

Kind Littles Made Country Hard Done America Film Lost Watches Spring Twenties Majority Track Corners Extensions Festivals Objectivity Film Festivals

Author:James Ponsoldt

“Darwin paid particular attention to disconfirming evidence. Objectivity maintenance routines are totally required in life if you're going to be a great thinker.”

Ifs Attention Particular Evidence Paid Thinker Objectivity Maintenance Great Thinkers

Author:Charlie Munger

“Much of the appeal of feminism is that it encourages women to do what they always felt like doing anyway: take everything personally. But to succeed at the highest level, you need some objectivity, which feminism hates. Feminists see objective reality as a conspiracy out to make them feel bad about themselves.”

Needs Feels Reality Hate Felt Levels Feminism Succeed Highest Feminist Objectives Appeals Conspiracy Objectivity Objective Reality

Author:Steve Sailer

“Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.”

Humans Character Understanding Existence Historical Profound Genuine Nobility Detachment Objectivity Human Existence Historical Knowledge

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Objective is the wrong word. Rather, it's fairness. Objectivity is a false God. Instead we should strive for fairness and transparency.”

Should Strive Objectives Fairness Transparency Objectivity False Gods Wrong Words

Author:Ken Auletta

“In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.”

Doe Reality Photography Objectives Certainty Realism Representation Conform Objectivity Patents

Author:Pierre Bourdieu

“The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.”

Needs President Court Objectivity Adviser Candor Deference

Book:Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States

Source: Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States

“The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.”

Has Beens Stills Important Seems Process Differences Known Practice Photography Capable Claims Digital Abandon Rhetoric Objectivity Fabrication Imaging

Book:Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

Source: Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History

“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.”

“When you take a photo at 1/1000 of a second, the moment can become an eternal fact, an eternal moment. So we have a philosophical problem of objectivity and subjectivity.”

Moments Facts Problem Eternal Philosophical Objectivity Subjectivity

Author:Eikoh Hosoe

“Though infested with many bewildering anomalies, photographs are considered our best arbiters between our visual perceptions and the memory of them. It is not only their apparent 'objectivity' that grants photographs their high status in this regard, but our belief that in them, fugitive sensation has been laid to rest.”

Has Beens Belief Memories Perception Regard Photograph Visuals Grants Sensations Objectivity Fugitive Anomalies Arbiter Visual Perception

Book:Photography & Fascination: Essays

Source: Photography & Fascination: Essays

“We hear a lot about the notion of objectivity, and I'm not sure I know what that is. I know what fairness is. I know what honesty is. And I know what the heart and emotions are. I think those are the things I particularly want to embrace. I would not want anyone to take away my right and my ability to communicate my feelings about the things that I see.”

Thinking Knows Want Heart Feelings Ability Emotion Honesty Embrace Notion Communicate Not Sure Fairness Objectivity Ability To Communicate

Author:Peter Turnley

“Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.”

Scientist Prejudice Objectivity

Author:Thomas Kuhn

“When I was growing up, all I wanted to do was fit in, but if you're perpetually an outsider, it gives you a perspective that might have a little more objectivity than people who really feel connected to their social environment in which they grow up.”

People Ifs Giving Feels Littles Might Wanted Social Grows Growing Up Environment Growing Perspective Fit Connected Outsiders Objectivity Social Environment

Author:Moby

“Don't get seduced by your own stuff. Don't get high on your own supply. The hardest thing as a filmmaker is when you're watching a film that you've worked on for several years. You know every frame so intimately that holding lots of the objectivity of a new viewer who has just seen it for the first time is the hardest thing. Every aesthetic decision you make - and you make thousands of them every day, have to - in theory, must be done from you being a blank slate. You almost have to run a program, like a mind wipe, every time you watch the movie.”

“Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.”

Different Sides Growth Term Effects Objects Strange Population Encounters Something New Categories Discourse Imperialism Conquest Objectivity Colonization Side Effects

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."”

Thinking Knows Important Real Ends Information Certainty Flexible Skeptical Objectivity Know It All Objectivism New Information

Author:W. J. T. Mitchell

“I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are practically the only people who actually spend time talking to Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and I find the longer I report in Washington, the mushier and less conclusive my own views are. I like it that way.”

People Way My Own Views Talking Impossible Republican Democrat Critics Strive Reports Reporters End Times Spend Time Objectivity

Author:Jon Weisman

“Many journalists become very defensive when you suggest to them that they are anything but impartial and objective. The problem with those words "impartiality" and "objectivity" is that they have lost their dictionary meaning. They've been taken over. "Impartiality" and "objectivity" now mean the establishment point of view.”

Mean Problem Lost Views Taken Point Of View Objectives Journalist Establishment Dictionary Objectivity Impartiality

Author:John Pilger

“That being said, even if we cannot achieve it, journalism that strives toward objectivity and fairness has an important place in our society. So, too, does being honest and open when presenting our own opinions, as you do so well in your book”

Ifs Wells Doe Said Important Book Opinion Achieve Honest Strive Journalism Being Honest Our Society Fairness Strife Objectivity Presenting

Author:Sheri Fink

“I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.”

Thinking Knows World Problem Remember Existence Boys Morality Stones Philosophical Teenager Typical Identical Objectivity Existence Of God

Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

“It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.”

Purpose Certain Sides Lines Decision Creativity Creative Walking Serving Versus Recognizing Objectivity Music Business Subjectivity

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“The media is uncritical, and their so-called the concept of objectivity translates into keeping everything within the Beltway. However, Iraq was quite different. Here, there were flat-out lies, and they sort of knew it. They were desperately trying to make connections between Saddam Hussein and 9/11.”

Trying Different Lying Media Concepts Connections Iraq Flats Translate Saddam Hussein Objectivity

Author:Noam Chomsky

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