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• Far from being magisterial in its objectivity, science was conditioned by history, society, and the prejudices of scientists.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Prejudice, Scientist

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• If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

  Josh Lanyon

  Thinking, Skills, Planets

  Josh Lanyon (2011). “Come Unto These Yellow Sands”, p.21, Samhain Publishing

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• Objectivity? I always have an objective.

  Jessica Mitford

  Objectives

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• It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Creativity, Creative, Decision

  "Hip-hop artist Lupe Fiasco". “The Tavis Smiley Show”, www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him.

  Voltaire

  Hate, Men, Greed

  "VOLTAIRE - Premium Collection: Novels, Philosophical Writings, Historical Works, Plays, Poems & Letters". 60+ Works in One Volume,

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• A lot of journalism wants to have what they call objectivity without them having a commitment to pursuing the truth, but that doesn't work. Objectivity requires belief in and a commitment toward pursuing the truth - having an object outside of our personal point of view.

  Nate Silver

  Commitment, Views, Want

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• Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs.

  Anthony Boucher

  Writing, Criminals, Warfare

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• There is no journalist without opinions, and there's no real objectivity, but we can strive toward it.

  Asne Seierstad

  Real, Opinion, Strive

  "A Hundred & One Days". Interview with Lisa Katayama, www.motherjones.com. May 12, 2005.

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• Objectivity is just male subjectivity.

  Jonathan Coe

  Males, Subjectivity

  "Co-Creation: From the Outside Looking In" by Ken Carbone, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2016.

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• News objectivity is a twentieth-century myth. We only complain about propaganda when we don't agree with it.

  Frank Miller

  Complaining, News, Propaganda

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• No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes, we should engage in ruthless self-reflection and harsh scrutiny, but we should simultaneously acknowledge that such introspection will, at best, only result in a partial view of our minds at work. Complete objectivity is not an option.

  Robert A. Burton

  Good Life, Humility, Reflection

  Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.162, Macmillan

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• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

  Edward Abbey

  Self, Moral, Cowardice

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• I don’t believe in objectivity, but I do believe deeply in fairness.

  Margot Adler

  Believe, Fairness, Don't Believe

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• Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Islam, Fundamentals, Denial

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• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  Hans-Georg Gadamer

  Mirrors, Focus, Subjectivity

  Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.289, A&C Black

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• The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

  Theodor Adorno

  Suffering, Needs, Speak

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• Philemon explained how Jung treated thoughts as though they were generated by himself, while for Philemon thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air. Jung concluded that Philemon taught him psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche. This helped Jung to understand that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend.

  Stanislav Grof

  Animal, Reality, Air

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

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• All the worth which the human being possesses all spiritual reality, he possesses only through the State... For Truth is the Unity of the universal and subjective Will; and the Universal is to be found in the State, in its laws, its universal and rational arrangements. The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth. We have in it, therefore, the object of History in a more definite shape than before; that in which Freedom obtains objectivity...

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Spiritual, Reality, Law

  "Lectures on the Philosophy of History, Volume 1". Book by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1832.

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• As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could each see the world as others see it and learn to respect one another's views more readily. But I learned from the Pirahas, our expectations, our culture, and our experiences can render even perceptions of the environment nearly incommensurable cross-culturally.

  Daniel Everett

  Life, Views, Expectations

  Daniel Everett (2010). “Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle”, p.17, Profile Books

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• There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.

  Thomas Nagel

  Reality, Admitting, Tendencies

  Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.196, Cambridge University Press

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• Those [American Jews] who favor the [Israeli] attack on Gaza are certainly guilty of such overwhelming emotional and cultural attachment to Israel and Israelis, that they long ago ceased viewing this conflict with any remnant of objectivity.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Emotional, Israel, Attachment

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• The bottom line about the information possessed by non-Western peoples is that the information becomes valid only when offered by a white scholar recognized by the academic establishment; in effect, the color of the skin guarantees scientific objectivity.

  Vine Deloria Jr.

  Color, White, Skins

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• 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

  Investing, Matter, Economics

  George Soros (1994). “The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market”, p.11, John Wiley & Sons

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• The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

  Stanislav Grof

  Gdp, Data, Events

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• What objectivity and the study of philosophy requires is not an 'open mind,' but an active mind - a mind able and eagerly willing to examine ideas, but to examine them criticially.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Ideas, Mind

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.28, Penguin

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