Delusion Quote by Heinz von Foerster Download Open image “Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.” — Heinz von Foerster ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delusion Made Objectivity Observation Observers
I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed — John Searle Copy Share Image
“Observations are determined by the ability to fully perceive actually what exists rather that what is believed or desired to be real.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
“This conclusion about perception is devastating for science: If our percepts are theory-laden, then perception is hardly a neutral and independent check upon our… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed. — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. — Billy West Copy Share Image
Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more… — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
“The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act” — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
Should one name one central concept, a first principle, of cybernetics, it would be circularity. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
What we need now is the description of the "describer" or, in other words, we need a theory of the observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
Objectivity is a subject's delusion that observing can be done without him — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
First-order cybernetics is the science of observed systems; Second-order cybernetics is the science of observing systems. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne Copy Share Image
If the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labour, entertainment… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
It's [Los Angeles] mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they'll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in. — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Atheism Explained is a gem. It is clear, informative, well-argued, provocative, often witty, and unfailingly interesting. David Ramsay Steele ranges over so many issues… — Jeremy Shearmur Copy Share Image
It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work… — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
I have a theory about marriage, Monsieur Boustouler. And it's that nearly always you will know within two weeks if it's going to work.… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions. — Claude Steiner Copy Share Image
I'd actually love to think that I could trust Kerry on national security. But the only way I could do that, at this point,… — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
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