Facticity Quotes

“There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.”
― William James

“We have even lost any critical insight we may once have had into the organic basis of perception, taking for granted the basic fact that a normal person has two eyes. We have nearly ceased to consider this as even knowledge at all and are no longer conscious of our own participation in perception. Instead, we feel a complete passivity in the face of a power that is independent of us; a power we call "existence" or "reality.”
― Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

“I'm but an effervescence..
A spirited bubble in the enigmatic facticity of existence; rising and mingling with the effulgence of shared moments, leaving behind a subtle sparkle.
In the illusion of time.”
― Monika Ajay Kaul