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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I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.

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I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

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It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

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

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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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

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Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

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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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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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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I couldn't prove a proposition with facts and figures, it was without merit.

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Well, you can't improvise story, which is a fact. If you could, the budget would be insane.

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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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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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The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

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We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

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Listen, I have to spend every single day living with me, so I know for a fact; I'm lovely, I'm completely lovely.

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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.

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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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