"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

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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."

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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."

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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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Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."

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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."

"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?"

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

"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."

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

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

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

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"When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable."

"We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time."

"We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action."

"Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being."

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"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."

"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought."