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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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"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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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Theory helps us to bear our ignorance of facts."
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"There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
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"There are no facts, only interpretations."
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"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
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"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
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"Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul."
Soul
"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."
Imagination
"Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading."
Reading
"The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word."
Fact
"Where words can be translated into equivalent words, the style of an original can be closely followed; but no translation which aims at being written in normal English can reproduce the style of Aristotle."
Being
"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."
Happiness
"The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths."
Business
"Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries."
Language
"It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history."
History
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