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Philosophy
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Question Everything. Understand Anything.
Philosophy is the relentless pursuit of fundamental understanding through reason, logic, and critical self-reflection, questioning everything from the nature of reality to the meaning of a good life. It is meaningful to human life because it empowers us to examine our assumptions, construct our own values, and ultimately, live more authentically and purposefully in a complex world.
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# Philosophy & Belief
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Context: • Sir John Suckling, The Goblins, Act V
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
“Nick of Time!”
— Unknown
Time
Philosophy
BeliefU
Context: • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Money, Act III, scene 3
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
“Time is money.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. (November 30, 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes)
“Fate is Never Final.”
— Unknown
Themes
ReligionU
Context: • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (C)
“It's always tea time!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), chapter 36
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (C)
“But all in good time.”
— Unknown
# Philosophy & Religion
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Prophecy" (Quotes, M, Mahabharata, Book 3, Vana Parva ~400 BCE: full text online)
“After Kali Yuga”
— Unknown
Religious philosophy
Religious studies books
Context: • One is The All.
• Cleopatra the Alchemist, in The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra
• Source: Wikiquote: "The All" (C)
• Cleopatra the Alchemist, in The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra
• Source: Wikiquote: "The All" (C)
“Hen to pan”
— The All
Holism
MonismU
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Prophecy" (Quotes, M, Mahabharata, Book 3, Vana Parva ~400 BCE: full text online)
“Kali Yuga Predictions”
— Unknown
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Context: • The fates call.
• Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), IV. 496.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261-65.)
• Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), IV. 496.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261-65.)
“Fata vocant.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Dare to be wise.
• Horace, Epistles, I. 2. 40
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisdom" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 878-82.)
• Horace, Epistles, I. 2. 40
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisdom" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 878-82.)
“Sapere aude.”
— Unknown
Epistemology
Metaphysics# Philosophy & Time
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“The signs of the times.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (W)
“Time is a waste of money.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John B. Buckstone, Billy Taylor
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
“Time was made for slaves.”
— Unknown
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Context: • To give the sails to fate.
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), III. 9.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261-65.)
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), III. 9.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261-65.)
“Dare fatis vela.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Time, the devourer of all things
• Ovid, Metamorphoses (Transformations), XV, 234
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (O)
• Ovid, Metamorphoses (Transformations), XV, 234
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (O)
“Tempus edax rerum”
— Unknown
# Philosophy & Themes
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Context: • Imperial Guard, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Doubt" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Doubt" (W)
“Doubt is for the dying.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act I, scene 2, line 95. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 91.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Causality" (Quotes, Modern history, until 20th century)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Causality" (Quotes, Modern history, until 20th century)
“Mine's not an idle cause.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Thoughts That Breathe: From the Writings of Dean Stanley, selected by E. E. Brown (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1879), p. 77.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Doubt" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Doubt" (S)
“Out of doubt comes faith.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Philip James Bailey, Festus (1813), scene Wood and Water. Sunset.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes)
“The heart is its own Fate.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Thomas Otway, Youth Preserved, Act III, scene 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261-65.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261-65.)
“Big with the fate of Rome.”
— Unknown
# Philosophy & Metaphysics
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Theosophical textsU
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" (Quotes, The Light of the Soul... a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Alice A. Bailey, (1927):
(Full text online), Book IV. Illumination)
(Full text online), Book IV. Illumination)
“b. Union or at-one-ment.”
— Unknown
Hindu texts
Nonfiction booksU
Context: • Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 87
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisdom" (R)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisdom" (R)
“Wisdom precludes boldness.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Job, XII. 2
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisdom" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 878-82.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisdom" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 878-82.)
“Wisdom shall die with you.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" (Quotes, The Light of the Soul... a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Alice A. Bailey, (1927):
(Full text online), Book IV. Illumination)
(Full text online), Book IV. Illumination)
“a. Consciousness and form.”
— Unknown
More Quotes
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Context: • John Wheeler, as quoted in Black Hole Computers by Lloyd Seth and Y. Jack Ng, in Scientific American (November 2004), p. 53
• Source: Wikiquote: "Reality" (Quotes, W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Reality" (Quotes, W)
“It from bit.”
— Unknown
U
2004 films
Comedy films
Films directed by David O. Russell
Philosophy filmsU
Context: • Sir John Suckling, The Goblins, Act V
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
“Nick of Time!”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Paola Zizzi, quoted in Black Hole Computers by Lloyd Seth and Y. Jack Ng, in Scientific American (November 2004), p. 54
• Source: Wikiquote: "Reality" (Quotes, Z)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Reality" (Quotes, Z)
“It from qubit.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Money, Act III, scene 3
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (Y, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922):
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922). Quotes from pp. 792-801.)
“Time is money.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Prophecy" (Quotes, M, Mahabharata, Book 3, Vana Parva ~400 BCE: full text online)
“After Kali Yuga”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Daniel Kevles, 1985. In the Name of Eugenics. New York: A. A. Knopf.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Eugenics" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Eugenics" (Quotes)
“Eugenics is dead.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Isaiah. XLV. 17; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.
• Source: Wikiquote: "World" (I)
• Source: Wikiquote: "World" (I)
“World without end.”
— Unknown
GeographyU
History of scienceU
Context: • One is The All.
• Cleopatra the Alchemist, in The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra
• Source: Wikiquote: "The All" (C)
• Cleopatra the Alchemist, in The Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra
• Source: Wikiquote: "The All" (C)
“Hen to pan”
— The All
U
Context: • Beaumont and Fletcher, Wit Without Money (c. 1614; publisher 1639), Act V, scene 2. Taming of the Shrew. Introduction, scene 1, line 5. Also Sc. 2, line 146. ("Slip" in folio).
• Source: Wikiquote: "World" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "World" (B)
“Let the world slide.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. (November 30, 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes)
“Fate is Never Final.”
— Unknown
T
The Game of Death
Bruce Lee
Documentary filmsU
Context: • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (C)
“It's always tea time!”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), chapter 36
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Time" (C)
“But all in good time.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Prophecy" (Quotes, M, Mahabharata, Book 3, Vana Parva ~400 BCE: full text online)
“Kali Yuga Predictions”
— Unknown
U
Context: • The fates call.
• Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), IV. 496.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261-65.)
• Virgil, Georgics (c. 29 BC), IV. 496.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 261-65.)
“Fata vocant.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Dare to be wise.
• Horace, Epistles, I. 2. 40
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisdom" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 878-82.)
• Horace, Epistles, I. 2. 40
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisdom" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 878-82.)
“Sapere aude.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Nordhaus, only four days after receiving Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, in interview for Diurnal of New Economic Theories (Oct 12, 2018)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Reward" (Quotes:
Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author, M - R)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Reward" (Quotes:
Quotes are arranged alphabetically by author, M - R)
“Things are stuck now.”
— Unknown
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