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"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
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"Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
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"The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious."
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"The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically."
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"Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives."
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