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Quote by John Burroughs
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. – John Burroughs

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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs

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Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these. – John Burroughs

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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. – Sigmund Freud

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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. – Tom Robbins

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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their “agreement,” as falsity means their disagreement, with “reality.” – William James

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