"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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"But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease."
"You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again."
"Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings."
"It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion."
"China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world."
"Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome."
"There are no rules or certain methods. I usually start with the guitar or piano and sing melodies over the chords. The lyrics seem to be born out of that, and the fact that it's still a mystery to me is my favorite part."
"What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end."
"The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being."
"Facts, even false ones, cannot be copyrighted."
"I think, in fact, I think President [Barack] Obama could step up."
"I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE."
"Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women."
"Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts."
"Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately."
"All sorts of problems and the interconnectedness between them that [Buckminster Fuller] was able to perceive sometimes rightly, often wrongly, always interestingly and also the fact that he was looking at solutions often that were not feasible in his own time but potentially could be applied today."
"The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation."
"Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is a primary fact of the inner life, the most difficult fact with which we must live."
"Yet the fact had no consciousness of itself except through me."