Having formed the Russian government, the reactionary bourgeoisie, of course, cannot conduct state work in the Ukrainian language. Because of that, the Ukrainian language, as the language of the Ukrainian state, is canceled and the "equality" of two languages – Russian and Ukrainian – is established. In fact, the Russian language is introduced, all paperwork is conducted in it, and the entire government speaks it, while Ukrainian is ridiculed and called "dog".
People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
—Sun Tzu
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
—Sun Tzu
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
—Henry David Thoreau
I cannot close my eyes to the fact that, by eating meat, I demand the murder of living beings to satisfy my luxurious lifestyle and my taste.
—Leo Tolstoy
We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
—Carl Jung
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
—Aldous Huxley
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
—Charles Darwin
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
—Henry David Thoreau
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
—Charles Darwin
Money is a new form of slavery, distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that there’s no human relation between master and slave.
—Leo Tolstoy
Wisdom begins only when one takes things as they are.
So it is a healing attitude when one can agree with the facts as they are, only then can we thrive.
—Carl Jung
I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.
—Vincent Van Gogh
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
—Charles Dickens
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
—Thomas Aquinas
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
—Michelangelo
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The narration of the facts is history; the narration of the facts with the meaning of the facts is doctrine.
—J. Gresham Machen
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
—Marcus Aurelius
Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.
—Blaise Pascal
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
—Charles Darwin
A good and wise person can be recognized by the fact that he considers others better and wiser than he is.
—Leo Tolstoy
I’m trying to think, don’t confuse me with facts.
—Plato
We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.
—Plato
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly!
—Plato
For the very fact that my knowledge is increasing little by little is the most certain argument for its imperfection.
After all, there are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
—Charlie Chaplin