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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."
"The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant."
"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."
"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
Explore more quotes by Edward Carpenter
"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."
"Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men."
"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."
"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."
"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."
"Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written."
"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."
"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"
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