Philosophical involvement blinded me to authentic human fact.
Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.
It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Traditions are not killed by facts.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
There is always a danger of accepting facts as proved which are really nothing of the kind.
There are no eternal facts, as there are likewise no absolute truths.
The world divides into facts.[Die Welt zerfällt in Tatsachen.]
The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended.
The totality of facts determines both what is the case, and also all that is not the case.[Die Gesamtheit der Tatsachen bestimmt, was der Fall ist und auch, was alles nicht der Fall ist.]
