Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes, Want Quotes, Facts Quotes

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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There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

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Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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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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I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully.

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Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

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It's an objective fact that I am a double amputee, but it's very subjective opinion as to whether that makes me disabled.

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By far the single greatest danger facing humankind - in fact, all living beings on our planet - is the threat of nuclear destruction.

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I acknowledge that I do not understand the processes of creation, but I accept the fact of it.

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There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

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Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

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If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

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When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

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Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

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It is a mathematical fact that if a line be not perfectly directed towards a point, it will actually go further away from it as it comes nearer to it.

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Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

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The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good.

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In fact, I am never wrong.

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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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