#objective

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#available #case #cultural #ideologies #matter

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#almost #exactly #fact #feminine #hasn

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? ↗

— Andrea Jung

#business #ceo #change #come #con

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#any #categorical #imperative #itself #necessary

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners under their control. ↗

— Janis Karpinski

#conventions #environment #fair #geneva #know

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#anything #approach #beings #completely #controlled

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things. ↗

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

#appearances #correctness #creates #fact #in fact

I have just joined the Board of the Population Institute because I am convinced that early stabilization of the world's population is important for the attainment of this objective. ↗

— Walter Kohn

#attainment #because #board #convinced #early

My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#difficult #doing #enough #function #i

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#alone #between #found #linguistic #link