T. S. Eliot Quotes, Art Quotes, Facts Quotes

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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With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.

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How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

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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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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

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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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By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

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What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.

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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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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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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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My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

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In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth.

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

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Almost all the other fellows do not look from the facts to the theory but from the theory to the facts; they cannot get out of the network of already accepted concepts; instead, comically, they only wriggle about inside.

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The fact is one thing and the idea about the fact is another.

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There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

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

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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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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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