Quotes about Fact

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek to silence debate, intimidate those with whom they disagree, or slander their ideological counterparts. Those who know they are right have no reason to stifle debate because they realize that all opposing arguments will ultimately be overcome by fact.

If circumstances had the power to bless or harm, they would bless & harm all men alike, but the fact that the same circumstances will be alike good & bad to different souls proves that the good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind of him that encounters it.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

But truth is not a subjective matter of taste—it's an objective matter of fact.

To let the light of the world flood back-to say this has not happened! But why turn one's head hither and thither? This is the truth. This is fact.

In all the books love is one of the great facts that mould human life. But it is a catastrophe: it happens suddenly and overwhelmingly, and there is little to be said about it.

It was as true… as turnips is. It was as true… as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.