Facts Quote by Andre Aciman

“Thousands and thousands of books are thrown on the market every year presenting some new variant of the personal romance, some tale of the…

— Leon Trotsky

Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.

— Bruce Chatwin

“Speculation is also the natural realm of tolerance, for judgment demands evidence, and it follows that the absence of evidence which forms the core…

— Daniel Abraham

The moment in which the narrator, reaching for his boots, becomes vividly and lastingly aware of the finality of his grandmother's death is another…

— Philip Kitcher

I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the…

— Richard Saul Wurman

Both Proust and Joyce record the ways in which human perspectives can be transformed. In Portrait, Stephen Dedalus is constantly undergoing epiphanies, but their…

— Philip Kitcher

Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.

— Albert Camus

“There are few things, - whether in the outward world, or to a certain depth, in the invisible sphere of thought, - few things…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in…

— Robertson Davies

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must…

— Isaac Watts

“Life is not a series of events charged with elements of contrast, contradiction, or surprise. It is a deep, coherent, and unfaltering process.”

— Percy C. Ainsworth

“When one admists that nothing is certain", proposed the philosopher Betrand Russell, "one must, I think, also add that some things are much more…

— Kathryn Schulz