“The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the world over and at all times there have been practical men, absorbed in 'irreducible and stubborn facts'; all the world over and at all times there have been men of philosophic temperament, who have been absorbed in the weaving of general principles. It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty of our present society.” MenWorldMindHas BeensFactsFormInterestPrinciplesModernEqualRelationUnionsPassionatePracticalsDevotionAll TimeAbstractStubbornTemperamentNoveltyWeavingPhilosophicVehementGeneralisation Author:Alfred North Whitehead
“The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.” FirstsHumansFactsCoursesIndividualExistenceRelationHuman HistoryPremisesOrganisation Book:The German Ideology Source: The German Ideology
“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.” HumansFactsLightPassionEnergyImaginationMemoriesPowerfulExistenceFictionVisionCreativeObjectsMaterialsIdealsRelationObviousIntenseConfusionFancyReachingFedsAssociationInwardRepresentationConstructsInclinationHuman ExistenceHabitualTransientBreadthCreative EnergySusceptibility Author:George Eliot
“Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.” MenLittlesPersonsDoeFactsTodayCultureOpinionEnemyRelationMethodSilentSeekingDeedsSpreadEvery ManGentleSufficientDistrustInquiryTestingCautionTireFervor Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.” MenMayTwoFactsGovernmentWould BeLawPoliticalPassionPolicyAuthorityNormalDirectRelationMethodConvictionToleranceViolentResistanceFollyTransformedExecutionViolationDisregardAgitationFree GovernmentIncitement Book:The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand Source: The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand
“Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.” DoeFactsConcernedRelationExistentialismDistinguished Book:Being and Time Source: Being and Time
“[Coining phrase "null hypothesis"] In relation to any experiment we may speak of this hypothesis as the "null hypothesis," and it should be noted that the null hypothesis is never proved or established, but is possibly disproved, in the course of experimentation. Every experiment may be said to exist only in order to give the facts a chance of disproving the null hypothesis.” GivingShouldMaySaidFactsOrderCoursesSpeakChanceRelationExperimentsPhrasesHypothesisExperimentationNull Author:Ronald Fisher
“Sex itself only only exists in relation to procreation. That's one of the reasons why I sometimes object, and it's just a theoretical objection, but it's worth thinking about, to the whole notion that one calls what people of the same sex do, sexual relations. As a matter of fact, they have precisely turned their back on sexual relations, in order to engage in acts of mutual pleasure that have nothing whatsoever to do with sexuality...” PeopleThinkingSometimesMatterReasonWholeFactsOrderSexPleasureObjectsRelationNotionSexualityReason WhyMutualTheoreticalMatter Of FactObjectionsProcreation Author:Alan Keyes
“A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.” IfsSaidFactsExampleRelationRelatedGood Examples Author:Susan Stebbing
“The world saw and understood that, when it comes to the normalization of the Armenian-Turkish relations, they have to deal not just with Armenia with its three million population, but with the ten million Armenians. And let no one ignore the fact that, contrary to any slogans, the Armenian nation is united in its goals and is strong with its sons and daughters.” WorldFactsThreeStrongNationsGoalUnitedDealsMillionsSawsSonTenDaughterUnderstoodRelationPopulationContrarySlogansTurkishSon And DaughterArmeniansArmenia Author:Serzh Sargsyan
“If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said - unless you were in fact talking about your looks, your age, your weight, your personal obsessions, or whether you are a fascist. In the famous liberal two-step, they leap from one idiotic point to the next, so you can never nail them. It’s like arguing with someone with Attention Deficit Disorder.” IfsLooksSaidTwoFactsAgeNextForceAttentionTalkingStepsBearsArgumentWeightRelationArguingObsessionLeapDisorderNailsDeficitFascistsIdioticAttention Deficit DisorderRetorts Author:Ann Coulter
“Witches admitted their relations with the devil. Our blood boils - how could they be forced to admit this when there is no devil. But reason tells us this is not true. The devil does exist and was in fact the inquisitor.” DoeReasonFactsBloodAtheismDevilRelationPositive AtheismWitch Author:Stanislaw Jerzy Lec