George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Firsts Quotes, Facts Quotes

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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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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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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

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The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.

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

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

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There does, in fact, appear to be a plan.

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I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others.

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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 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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But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease.

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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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The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

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Necessity is an interpretation, not a fact.

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Truth stands for the fact, nonviolence negates the fact.

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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.

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