Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
Reaching beyond ourselves, exceeding our mind is not a simple thing. It is, in fact, impossible–one half of the Ego is trying to exceed the other.
To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.
I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.
My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more.
The other guys drink, but they don't drink anywhere near what I used to. And I think they're slightly respectful of the fact that I'm off it, so it's not a problem.
The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact; it is actually our truisms that are untrue.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
I began writing in the 4th grade. As a matter of fact, I produced a play for the entire school. It was about Leif Ericson and the discovery of America.
Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?
This nation's elected leaders owe all Americans the duty of formulating an Iraqi policy based on sound analysis of the actual facts.
I still have a reputation as an eccentric. But the fact is that audiences probably mix up my roles with me as a person.
The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
