We do not see things as they are, nor do we even see them as we are, but only as we believe our story to have been.
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 politi...
(n.) The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.
There is, certainly, an unbreachable chasm between the subjective and objective world. A reasonable person expects subjective facts to be overturned, because subjective facts are not facts; they're ju...
Each one of us can aspire to be on TOP simply by keeping a strict focus on Time, Objectivity and Prioritising. As simple as that!
Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is to live in our own.
From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very ob...
Destiny is a right destination for every nation with a mission of destiny.
It is precisely this refusal of the Cartesian paradigm that characterizes Radical Orthodoxy, which seeks to reanimate the account of knowledge offered by Augustine and Aquinas. On this ancient-medieva...
I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.
If truth is not objective, there is no good or evil. There is only what people do and how people feel about it.
By calling into question the very ideal of a universal, autonomous reason (which was, in the Enlightenment, the basis for rejecting religious thought) and further demonstrating that all knowledge is g...
There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and trying to make sense of them. Dim, shaky, weak, static-y little signals that only hint at the complexi...
I would love to continue to be someone that is positive but also be someone that is objective,
This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationa...
Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, idea...
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?
One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are.
I try to be rational (or at least my imaginary facsimile of what rationality is supposed to be). I try to look at the available data objectively (fully aware that this is impossible). I try to extrapo...
Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.
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