Quotes About Objective

That's one of the central problems of history, isn't it, sir? The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

The question of subjective versus objective interpretation, the fact that we need to know the history of the historian in order to understand the version that is being put in front of us.

If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you get there?

Our experience tells us that the world has objective reality and a perfect God, who must, be truthful, could not deceive us. Instead of using the world to prove the existence of God, therefore, Descartes had used the idea of God to give him faith in the reality of the world.

My aim is to keep this bathroom clean. Your aim will help.

The question whether objective truth can be attributed to human thinking is not a question of theory but is a practical question. Man must prove the truth — i.e. the reality and power, the this-sidedness of his thinking in practice. The dispute over the reality or non-reality of thinking that is isolated from practice is a purely scholastic question.

The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.

Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty.

The modern man thinks that everything ought to be done for the sake of something else, and never for its own sake.

It seems that man's greatest natural enemy is the target.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.

You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

Change is the nature of all objective things.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

The atheist is cheating whenever he makes a moral judgment, acting as though it has an objective reference, when his philosophy in fact precludes it.

I take happiness very seriously. It is a creed, a philosophy and an objective.

If you don't know your destination, how will you get there?

Even the least of our activities ought to have some end in view.

Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

I don't think the objective of an abortion clinic is to try to talk women out of having the procedure. That obviously would not be positive for their bottom line.