Virginia Woolf Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Facts Quotes

I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

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Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

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Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

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A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

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No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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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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Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

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The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

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We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

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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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Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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I shall speak facts; but some will say I deal in fiction.

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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

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To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

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The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal.

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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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While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

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