Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.
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 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.]
The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.[Les faits ne pénètrent pas dans le monde où vivent nos croyances, ils n’ont pas fait naître celles-ci, ils ne les détruisent pas.]
The fact that society has become strong and sure of itself diminishes the external importance of the injury and so leads to a mitigation of its punishment.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his INTELLECTUAL superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can DO wrong proves his MORAL inferiority to any creature that CANNOT.