Brute Facts

Famous quotes containing the words brute and/or facts:

“Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)