Quotes by Objectivity The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. George Orwell deceitobjectivitylying My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted. Georges Rouault objectivitymovingchrist Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind. Georges Rouault objectivityblindartist It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist. Georgie Anne Geyer aurasobjectivityway Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject matter, the participant in the economic process, lacks objectivity. George Soros investingobjectivitymatter A work of art is itself an object, first of all, and so manipulation is unavoidable: it's a prerequisite. But I needed the greater objectivity of the photograph in order to correct my own way of seeing: for instance, if I draw an object from nature, I start to stylize and to change it in accordance with my personal vision and my training. But if I paint from a photograph, I can forget all the criteria that I get from these sources. I can paint against my will, as it were. And that, to me, felt like an enrichment. Gerhard Richter objectivityphotographyart The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent. Gore Vidal objectivitymediacountry 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. Gotz Aly academicobjectivitybook You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. Grantland Rice objectivitygolflying The middle class male thinks he has a monopoly on objectivity. Grayson Perry objectivityclassthinking One thing a lyricist must learn is not to fall in love with his own lines. Once you learn that, you can walk away from the lyric and look at it with a reasonable degree of objectivity. Hal David degreesfalling-in-loveobjectivity Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form. H. P. Blavatsky finiteobjectivityform The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror. Hans-Georg Gadamer objectivityfocusmirrors I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too often serve power and greed, the ambitions of competing nation-states, or the requirements of commerce. Hazel Henderson greedobjectivityambition Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. Heinz von Foerster observationobjectivitymade Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him. Heinz von Foerster objectivityinsightdone After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth. Helene Deutsch objectivityresearchgoal Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions. Henry R. Luce illusionobjectivitymen The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing. Herman Kahn objectivityweaponsnumbers Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man. Herbert Marcuse objectivitymenphilosophy«1234567891011»
