Objectivity Quotes - Page 11

• When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.

  James H. Austin

  Self, Brain, Subjectivity

  James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press

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

  Joe Pantoliano

  People, Subjectivity

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. March 31, 2001.

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• Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our love, whose Joy is our joy, whose Peace is our peace, whose burdens are our burdens, whose Will is our will. Self is emptied into God, and God in-fills it.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Love Is, Self, Joy

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• Within a year after I write a play I forget the experience of having written it. And I couldn't revise or rewrite it if I wanted to. Up until that point, I'm so involved with the experience of having written the play, and the nature of it, that I can't see what faults it might have. The only moment of clear objectivity that I can find is at the moment of critical heat - of self-critical heat when I'm actually writing.

  Edward Albee

  Writing, Self, Years

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.57, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

  Alfred Adler

  Reality, Important, Evaluation

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Lying, Iraq, Media

  "Noam Chomsky on the 2016 Republicans: 'I Have Never Seen Such Lunatics in the Political System'". Interview with Simone Chun / Hankyoreh, www.alternet.org. March 11, 2016.

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• We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.

  Neil Postman

  Children, Ideas, People

  Neil Postman (2011). “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology”, p.61, Vintage

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• 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

  Sheri Fink

  Book, Important, Doe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Peter Turnley

  Honesty, Heart, Thinking

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• 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.

  Jon Weisman

  Views, Talking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Jose Mourinho

  Airports, Knowing, Intellectual

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• 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.

  W. J. T. Mitchell

  Growth, Encounters, Population

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Teenager, Philosophical, Boys

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

  George Eliot

  Self, Vision, Balance

  George Eliot (2016). “Middlemarch”, p.386, Xist Publishing

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• The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one's desires and fears.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Love Is, Opposites

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• I have a feeling Virtual Reality will further expose the conceit that 'reality' is a fact. It will provide another reminder of the seamless continuity between the world outside and the world within, delivering another major hit to the old fraud of objectivity. 'Real,' as Kevin Kelly put it, 'is going to be one of the most relative words we'll have.'

  John Perry Barlow

  Real, Feelings, World

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• I look at the human sciences as poetic sciences in which there is no objectivity, and I see film as not being objective, and cinema verite as a cinema of lies that depends on the art of telling yourself lies. If you’re a good storyteller then the lie is more true than reality, and if you’re a bad one, the truth is worse than a half lie.

  Jean Rouch

  Art, Lying, Reality

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• One cannot conceive of objectivity without subjectivity.

  Paulo Freire

  Subjectivity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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