The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not know. He insists that you are trading on the ignorance of others, and on the fear of others. He is not satisfied with saying th...
One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story in your head is infinitely better, truer, more moving, more fascinating, more perceptive, than anything you're g...
In asking philosophical questions, we use a reason shaped by the body, a cognitive unconscious to which we have no direct access, and metaphorical thought of which we are largely unaware. The fact that abstract thought is mostly metaphorical means th...
I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesti...
Bass: The law says you have the right to hold a nigger, but begging the law's pardon... it lies. Is everything right because the law allows it? Suppose they'd pass a law taking away your liberty and making you a slave? Edwin Epps: Ha! Bass: Suppose! ...
Why do we not accept ESP as a psychological fact? Rhine has offered enough evidence to have convinced us on almost any other issue... Personally, I do not accept ESP for a moment, because it does not make sense. My external criteria, both of physics ...
How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.
I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
The fact is that in this day and age I don't think any novelist can assume that a book will get attention.
I went into umpiring at age 16. I got into officiating because of the fact that I could not stand the referees that worked our basketball games.
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
The fact that I'm on CNN today is something I never would have guessed as a 13-year-old - or any other age, for that matter.
The fact is, 'Billy Elliot' is an incredible show, for any age and any gender. 'Degrassi' fans would absolutely fall in love with 'Billy Elliot.'
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it, so by that fact alone, I don't want to be one.
I resent the fact that a parental warning sticker has to be included on an album as cover art. To me that's censorship.
