Only a personal response involving imagination can possibly procure realization even of pure "facts."
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The really great haters in the history of the world have always been priests, who are also the cleverest haters—in comparison with the cleverness of priestly revenge, every other piece of cleverness is practically negligible.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus there are perpetually returning emotions of pleasure so recondite, so refined, so almost infinite in variety and extent, and yet how little noticed or understood!
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

73 The Consilia medica , or Consultations, were published records, either of particular cases or of diseases in a more general sense, which seem to have been instituted by Thaddæus of Florence in the thirteenth century, were abundant in the fifteenth, and were continued into the sixteenth, and even later.
— from Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by T. Clifford (Thomas Clifford) Allbutt

Flag description: five equal horizontal bands of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bears a large, white, five-pointed star in the center; design initially influenced by the US flag, but similar to the Cuban flag, with the colors of the bands and triangle reversed Economy Puerto Rico Economy - overview: Puerto Rico has one of the most dynamic economies in the Caribbean region.
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

A vast number of curious devices, by which insects provide for the protection and subsistence of their young, whom they are perhaps never to see, are most probably a peculiar restricted effort of philoprogenitiveness.
— from Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers

The presence of a British officer in the parcel room, even on parole and for the express purpose of supervising and facilitating delivery, was only permitted when all other attempts to cope with the situation had failed.
— from The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue) by H. G. (Hugh George) Durnford

Diplomatic representation from the US: none (territory of the US with commonwealth status) Flag description: five equal horizontal bands of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side bears a large, white, five-pointed star in the center; design initially influenced by the US flag, but similar to the Cuban flag, with the colors of the bands and triangle reversed Economy ::Puerto Rico Economy - overview: Puerto Rico has one of the most dynamic economies in the Caribbean region.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He does not cant; he does not merely recite verbal formulas; he does not play the part of attorney, first determining what to advocate, and then seeking plausible reasons: everywhere one perceives that he has really brought his mind to bear upon facts , and so has come to real mental fruit.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various