Brute Facts

Famous quotes containing the words brute and/or facts:

“Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
—William James (1842–1910)