Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans-Georg Gadamer

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

George Soros

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.

Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I always have an objective.

Jessica Mitford

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

Howard Fineman

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Isaiah Berlin

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

Dan Johnson

The first and most important objective was to step up our recruiting of international students,

Morarji Desai

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

Miguel Syjuco

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.

Jose Padilha

Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that possibility, there is no empirical principle capable of deciding between different arguments and theories.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them.

Martin Puryear

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.

Laura Innes

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Objectification is above all exteriorization, the alienation of spirit from itself.

Eric Alterman

But particularly when the media profess to strive toward objectivity, gatekeepers play a crucial role in helping people navigate the news to make educated political decisions.

Jose Mourinho

Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without intellectual objectivity they should show me the way to their airport. It is important to have an opinion and not be afraid to express it, knowing there will be criticism.

Manuel Puig

Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

Joe Pantoliano

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Hasso Plattner

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

Eisaku Sato

If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life's objective is life itself.

Paulo Freire

One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

Philip Johnson

Pick very few objects and place them exactly.

The tribunal did not object to us doing this, also.

John Carroll

The virtual suppression of ethical discussion after 1845 produces the semblance of purely descriptive analysis, dressed in the mantle of positivist objectivity, analysis which is, in fact, strung to a framework of crude, because unexplicated, moral assumptions.

Jonathan Coe

Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

Peter Jennings

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.

Thomas Carlyle

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.

Roland Barthes

The Text is not a definitive object.

Sufjan Stevens

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.

Swami Vivekananda

Neither object nor time off, put up with what comes.