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Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

The theory must not contradict empirical facts.

Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.348, Running Press

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

Yukio Mishima (1958). “Confessions of a Mask”, p.144, New Directions Publishing

I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

"Fresh Israeli Face Plays Down Dimming of Political Star" by Jodi Rudoren, www.nytimes.com. May 19, 2013.

There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.

William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

William Manchester (1967). “The Death Of A President”

Facts do not constitute truth.

"12 Things I Learned at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School" by Marie-Françoise Theodore, www.indiewire.com. September 24, 2014.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Walter Benjamin, Peter Demetz (1986). “Reflections: essays, aphorisms, autobiographical writing”, Schocken

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies