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Quotes About Facticity

I intend to focus on the question of truth. That means I do not inquire about facticity-what happened-but what is claimed, what is asserted here about reality.
~ Walter Brueggemann
But life does not consist of words.Life consists of reality.
~ Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Ethics is the triumph of freedom over facticity.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Moreover, humanity is something other than a species: it is an historical becoming; it is defined by the way it assumes natural facticity.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
~ Henry David Thoreau
That's the truth—what is, what was, what will be—not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.
~ Orson Scott Card
Reality is what it is
~ H.W. Mann
The whole architecture of the notions of psychology... as differentiations of one sole and massive adhesion to being which is the flesh ...There is no hierarchy of orders of layers or planes, there is dimensionality of every fact & facticity of every dimension.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty