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"Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so."
"The world is made up of facts, not things."
"Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature."
"Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers."
"I am not a political figure. The fact is I am a humanitarian figure and always will be."
"Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all forms of love. These are care, responsability, respect and knowledge"
"You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general."
"I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless. My efforts must soon be crowned with success, or discontinued."
"If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you."
"Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else."
"The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth."
"You could take up the line that some of the gnostics took up - a line which I often thought was a very plausible one - that as a matter of fact this world that we know was made by the devil at a moment when God was not looking. There is a good deal to be said for that, and I am not concerned to refute it."
"Who can doubt that we exist only to love? Disguise it, in fact, as we will, we love without intermission... We live not a moment exempt from its influence."
"All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber."
"The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks."
"There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact."
"Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible"
"Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it."
"The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth..."
"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!"
