“By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective. — Paul Biya Copy Share Image
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
'Fact checking' is opinion journalism pretending to be some sort of heightened objectivity. — James Taranto Copy Share Image
I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work. — Vincent Gallo Copy Share Image
There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it. — Asne Seierstad Copy Share Image
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear… — Georgie Anne Geyer Copy Share Image
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip… — Karen Traviss Copy Share Image
We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which… — Paul Eldridge Copy Share Image
Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe. — Marcello Truzzi Copy Share Image
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… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As a journalist, I try to be as fact-based and objective as possible, though I'm also aware that objectivity is an illusion.… — Vanessa Grigoriadis Copy Share Image
Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
I believe that absolute objectivity does not exist. American journalists, although they try to be objective, always lean one way or another.… — Tomas Borge Copy Share Image
“... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our… — John Piper Copy Share Image
After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner… — James Ponsoldt Copy Share Image
Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
“When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Economics seeks to be a science. Science is supposed to be objective and it is difficult to be scientific when the subject… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes. — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.--What was that god thinking who counseled, "Know thyself!" Did he perhaps mean,"Cease to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
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… — Gotz Aly Copy Share Image
“A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
“Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side."… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
“Even in the physical world, all that cannot be caught in the net of modern science is collectively neglected, and its nonexistence… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
Radical views that are outside the mainstream generally (but not always) are more reliable than the dominant view because they are more… — Michael Pare Copy Share Image
“He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and… — Mary Butts Copy Share Image
