Paul Feyerabend Quotes

As a journalist, the details always tell the story.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

I like the facts. I find them interesting.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

There's always a germ of truth in just about everything.

History is exciting because it's true.

The biographies of slaves can hardly be individualized; they belong to the class. We know bare facts; it is only the general experience of human beings in like condition which can clothe them with life. The outlines are certain, the details are inferential.

When it comes to our perceptions, one is an event, two is a pattern, three is a trend, and four is fact.

The big story of the day is always going to be driven by what's happened and by the facts and the events.

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

Facts are often complicated.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all. We disregard them, we say they forget, because they have not the words to make us remember. ... By the time they learn to speak they have forgotten the details of their complaints, and so we never know. They forget so quickly, we say, because we cannot contemplate the fact that they never forget.

The truth of the story lies in the details.

It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

When actions are followed by events that are not causally related to the prior acts, people often erroneously perceive contingencies that do not, in fact, exist

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.Only at those points, where social conditions take recognizable and measurable shape, do the body of truth and the body of news coincide.

The details of the world in which we live are always secondary to the fact that we must live in them.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.

In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.

The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.