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An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact.

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The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred

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Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

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The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.

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Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

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Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

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The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

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In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book.

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The simple fact is this: There are no neutral photographs.

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If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

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I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage.

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The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

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Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

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In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.

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But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

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These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides.

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The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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Facts can obscure the truth.

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Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

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