#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

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

Happiness is a real, objective phenomenon, scientifically verifiable. That means people and whole societies can now be measured over time and compared accurately with one another. Causes and cures for unhappiness can be quantified. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#another #causes #compared #cures #happiness

I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat. ↗

— Pierre Trudeau

#boat #drafted #fact #go #government

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race. ↗

— Marianne Vos

#gold #gold medals #medals #objective #olympics

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#art #despite #entering #into #objective

Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#failure #forget #ideals #objectives #only

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#about #away #back #chord #come

I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#communist #either #i #indeed #legal