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.
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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.
