Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives.
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Things do not change; we change.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
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