"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."

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"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."

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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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"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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"Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic."

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"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."

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"Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable."

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"No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process."

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"Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does."

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