{"quotes":[{"text":"I think being a liberal, in the true sense, is being nondoctrinaire, nondogmatic, non-committed to a cause - but examining each case on its merits. Being left of center is another thing; it's a political position. I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not liberal, by my definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they're preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can't be very good journalists; that is, if they carry it into their journa.","author":"Walter Cronkite","tags":["dogma","journalism","liberal","liberalism","objectivity","politics"],"id":5326,"author_id":"Walter+Cronkite"},{"text":"I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective,.","author":"Tim Tebow","tags":["objectivity","optimism","testimony"],"id":10261,"author_id":"Tim+Tebow"},{"text":"It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should try to avoid a one-sided or personal interpretation of history. Furthermore, some collective factors (such as national enthusiasm) may influence objectivity that is crucial for the interpretation of historical events.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["election-winners","historians","history","history-interpretation","history","objectivity","objectivity","philosophy","philosophy","sociology","sociology"],"id":38747,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should try to avoid a one-sided or personal interpretation of history. Furthermore, some collective factors (such as national enthusiasm) may influence objectivity that is crucial for the interpretation of historical events.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["election-winners","historians","history","history-interpretation","history","objectivity","objectivity","philosophy","philosophy","sociology","sociology"],"id":38747,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"It should be apparent that the belief in objectivity in journalism, as in other professions, is not just a claim about what kind of knowledge is reliable. It is also a moral philosophy, a declaration of what kind of thinking one should engage in, in making moral decisions. It is, moreover, a political commitment, for it provides a guide to what groups one should acknowledge as relevant audiences for judging one's own thoughts and acts.","author":"Michael Schudson","tags":["journalism","media","objectivity","sociology"],"id":55540,"author_id":"Michael+Schudson"},{"text":"Writers who think THEY are being criticized when only that writing is being criticized are beyond a teacher's reach. Writing can only be learned when a writer coldly separates himself from what he has written and looks at it with the objectivity of a plumber examining a newly piped bathroom to see if he got all the joints tight.","author":"William Zinsser","tags":["humility","objectivity","openness","teachability"],"id":58636,"author_id":"William+Zinsser"},{"text":"I felt that the metal of my spirit, like a bar of iron that is softened and bent by a persistent flame, was being gradually softened and bent by the troubles that oppressed it. In spite of myself, I was conscious of a feeling of envy for those who did not suffer from such troubles, for the wealthy and the privileged; and this envy, I observed, was accompanied—still against my will—by a feeling of bitterness towards them, which, in turn, did not limit its aim to particular persons or situations, but, as if by an uncontrollable bias, tended to assume the general, abstract character of a whole conception of life. In fact, during those difficult days, I came very gradually to feel that my irritation and my intolerance of poverty were turning into a revolt against injustice, and not only against the injustice which struck at me personally but the injustice from which so many others like me suffered. I was quite aware of this almost imperceptible transformation of my subjective resentments into objective reflections and states of mind, owing to the bent of my thoughts which led always and irresistibly in the same direction: owing also to my conversation, which, without my intending it, alway harped upon the same subject. I also noticed in myself a growing sympathy for those political parties which proclaimed their struggle against the evils and infamies of the society to which, in the end I had attributed the troubles that beset me—a society which, as I thought, in reference to myself, allowed its best sons to languish and protected its worst ones. Usually, and in the simpler, less cultivated people, this process occurs without their knowing it, in the dark depths of consciousness where, by a kind of mysterious alchemy, egoism is transmuted into altruism, hatred into love, fear into courage; but to me, accustomed as I was to observing and studying myself, the whole thing was clear and visible, as though I were watching it happen in someone else; and yet I was aware the whole time that I was being swayed by material subjective factors, that I was transforming purely personal motives into universal reasons.","author":"Alberto Moravia","tags":["alienation","categorical-imperative","character","essentialism","free-will","hegel","italy","objectivity","political-animal","subjectivity","universal-reasons"],"id":64198,"author_id":"Alberto+Moravia"},{"text":"These two developments throw light on what is perhaps the most fundamental difference between the Renaissance and all previous periods of art. We have repeatedly seen that there were these circumstances which could compel the artist to make a distinction between the 'technical' proportions and the 'objective;' the influence of organic movement, the influence of perspective foreshortening, and the regard for the visual impression of the beholder. These three factors of variation have one thing in common: they all presuppose the artistic recognition of subjectivity. Organic movement introduces into the calculus of artistic composition the subjective will and the subjective emotions of the thing represented; foreshortening the subjective visual experience of the artist; and those 'eurhythmic' adjustments which alter that which is right in favor of what seems right, the subjective visual experience of a potential beholder. And it is the Renaissance which, for the first time, not only affirms but formally legitimizes and rationalizes these three forms of subjectivity.","author":"Erwin Panofsky","tags":["art","beholder","experience","objectivity","renaissance","representation","subjectivity","voyeur","western"],"id":64900,"author_id":"Erwin+Panofsky"},{"text":"Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to hear lectures from individualists and socialists, protectionists and free-traders, inflationists and believers in the gold standard. He ought to be encouraged to read the best books of the various schools, as recommended by those who believe in them. This would teach him to weigh arguments and evidence, to know that no pinion is certainly right, and to judge men by their quality rather than by their consonance with preconceptions.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["evidence","learning","objectivity","rationality","subjectivity","truth"],"id":66402,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"Lovers tend to be philosophical, achievers are practical.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["achieve","achievers","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","business","business","corporate","corporate-world","hobby","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","love","lover","lovers","meeting","meetings","metaphysics","motivation","motivational","motivational","objective","objectivism","objectivity","paint","painters","painting","philosophical","philosophy","photographer","photographs","photography","photography","picture","pictures","practical","practicality","practice","pragmatic","pragmatism","romeo","tend-to","tend-to-be","wallpaper","wisdom","wisdom","works"],"id":82013,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":91,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}