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• The subject of the novel is reality liberated from soul. The reader in complete independence presented with a structured process:let him evaluate it, not the author. The façade of the novel cannot be other than stone or steel, flashing electrically or dark, but silent.

  Alfred Doblin

  Dark, Reality, Soul

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• You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.

  Colin Farrell

  Distance, Character, Thinking

  "Colin Farrell Talks DEAD MAN DOWN, Working with Noomi Rapace, SAVING MR. BANKS, WINTER’S TALE, EPIC, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2013.

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• It is only by being exchanged that the products of labor acquire a socially uniform objectivity as values, which is distinct from their sensuously varied objectivity as articles of utility.

  Juliet B. Schor

  Uniforms, Articles, Labor

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• Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1997). “Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations”, p.136, Cambridge University Press

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• Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creating, Evil, Desire

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• The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.

  William Faulkner

  Honesty, Kids, Artist

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• Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword "scientific objectivity" and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Doors, Bears, Needs

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• 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 off the subjective and therefore the unsettling.

  Gotz Aly

  Book, Academic, Criteria

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

  William James

  Truth, Air, Quality

  William James (2000). “Pragmatism and Other Writings”, p.199, Penguin

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• 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.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Designer, Graphic, Visuals

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

  Lee Gutkind

  Clever, Nonfiction, Boring

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

  Simon Blackburn

  Absolutism, Facts, Reason

  Simon Blackburn (2005). “Truth: A Guide”, p.15, Oxford University Press

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• Properly conducted scientific studies . . . give us a pretty good idea of when something is likely to be correct. To me, pretty good is a linguistic statistic that falls somewhere in between more likely than not and beyond a reasonable doubt, et avoides the pitfalls arising from the belief in complete objectivity.

  Robert A. Burton

  Fall, Humility, Ideas

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• No matter how honest scientists think they are, they are still influenced by various unconscious assumptions that prevent them from attaining true objectivity. Expressed in a sentence, Fort 's principle goes something like this: People with a psychological need to believe in marvels are no more prejudiced and gullible than people with a psychological need not to believe in marvels.

  Colin Wilson

  Believe, Thinking, Psychological Needs

  "Mysteries". Book by Colin Wilson, 1978.

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• Science has long been in the value business. Despite a widespread belief to the contrary, scientific validity is not the result of scientists abstaining from making value judgments; rather, scientific validity is the result of scientists making their best efforts to value principles of reasoning that link their beliefs to reality, through reliable chains of evidence and argument.

  Sam Harris

  Reality, Best Effort, Long

  "The Moral Landscape". Book by Sam Harris, 2010.

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• We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

  Paul Eldridge

  Prejudice, Ornaments, Saws

  Maxims for a Modern Man 2098

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• Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Mean, Views, Giving

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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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• 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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• After that really, I spent the majority of the spring going to tons and tons of regional festivals throughout America. Every corner of the country, I took the movie to twenty film festivals or something to that extent. I've lost track. Probably done Q&As 40-50 times at this point. It's always hard to watch something I've made, but I've got a little more objectivity and kind of see the film as not just an extension of myself.

  James Ponsoldt

  Country, Spring, America

  Source: collider.com

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• Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Character, Historical Knowledge, Profound

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• In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Photography, Reality, Patents

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• The president's need for complete candor and objectivity from advisers calls for great deference from the courts.

  Warren E. Burger

  President, Needs, Court

  Warren E. Burger (1984). “Significant Supreme Court Opinions of the Honorable Warren E. Burger: Chief Justice of the United States”

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• The main difference seems to be that, whereas photography still claims some sort of objectivity, digital imaging is an overtly fictional process. As a practice that is known to be capable of nothing but fabrication, digitization abandons even the rhetoric of truth that has been such an important part of photography's cultural success.

  Geoffrey Batchen

  Photography, Practice, Differences

  Geoffrey Batchen (2002). “Each Wild Idea: Writing, Photography, History”, p.134, MIT Press

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• Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.

  Joan Fontcuberta

  Photography, Memories, Distance

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