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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.

Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

It can hardly be denied that such a demand quite arbitrarily limits the facts which are to be admitted as possible causes of the events which occur in the real world.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary.

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

The facts are on our side.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.