#fact

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't. We can't compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We're dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#facts #religions #simplicity #religion

How can one explain this trend towards a more colorless and shallow life? Well, the work was easier, if less healthy, and it brought in more money, more leisure, and perhaps more entertainment. A day in the country is long and hard. And yet the fruits of their present life were worthless compared to a single coin of their former life: a rest in the evening and a rural festivity. That they no longer knew the old kind of happiness was obvious from the discontentment which spread over their features. Soon dissatisfaction, prevailing over all their other moods, became their religion. ↗

— Ernst Jünger

#happiness #satisfaction #work #money

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them. ↗

— James Rozoff

#truth #respect

American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#fact #inequality #journalists #life #needn

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#breaks #down #else #everything #existence

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. ↗

— Al Alvarez

#better #fact #mean #ordinary #play

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#fact #naturalism #reliable #true #nature

My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right. ↗

— Ashleigh Brilliant

#changed #fact #humble #humor #opinions

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece. ↗

— Gillian Anderson

#add #again #aunt #did #difficult

Collecting is my joy; it gives me great satisfaction. ↗

— Ursula Andress

#gives #great #joy #me #satisfaction