"A picture is a fact."

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian Philosopher

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"In fact I am quite snappy and irritable, and I don't know if I'd like to make myself worse in that respect."

Nigella Lawson, British Journalist

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"We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?"

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."

George Santayana, American Philosopher

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"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

George Eliot, British Author

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"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Our greatest stupidities may be very wise."

Intelligence

"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."

Problems

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

Existence

"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

Cultural

"If a lion could talk, we could not understand him."

Talk

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

Life

"We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all."

Philosophy

"What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural."

Ethics

"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

Science

"In the middle of a conversation, someone says to me out of the blue: 'I wish you luck.' I am astonished; but later I realize that these words connect up with his thoughts about me.And now they do not strike me as meaningless any more."

Interpretation