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 Q - Quotations

 

Quotations: Citations of texts by someone that one considers interesting for some reason.

This Philosophical Dictionary eventually will contain a fairly substantive list of quotations I like, for various reasons, mostly but not exclusively based on the literature listed below, that contains selections by others based on their reading, one suspects also in part from books of quotation.

They are contained in their own files by letter and subject. The files are linked. By the way: The fact that I quote something or someone does not necessarily mean that I agree with the quotation or like the person quoted or admire his ideas.


New:

There now is a simple quotation-server available that serves - at present - 500 quotations randomly, 1 at the time. It is called WoW.

It comes as a zipped file  that expands to an executable (for Windows only) plus a small textfile. The executable contains the quotes and serves them, and was written in assembler. The textfile explains some.

The quotes were all taken from the section Quotations.


Quotations alphabetically:


A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z     


Subjects in the Quotations (sofar):

Ability Beautiful

Cant

Absurdity Belief Censure
Actions Bible Certainty
Advice Books Chance
Agnosticism Bureaucracy Children
Anger Christianity
Animals Civilization
Argument Consistency
Apathy Conservatism
Art Conscience
Atheism Consciousness
Cruelty
Culture
Danger Education Faith
Death Ends Fallibilism
Desire Equality Fame
Error Fascism
Evidence Feeling
Evil Freedom
Existence Free speech
Experience
Generalization Habit Ideas
Genius Happiness Ignorance
God Hate Institution
Good History Intelligence
Government Humanity
Human nature
Hypocrisy
Justice Knowledge Law
Liberty
Life
Love
Lying
Madness Nation Opinion
Majority Nature
Malice Non-conformism
Mankind
Mathematics
Mercy
Money
Morals
Mysteries
Pain Quakers Reason
Party Religion
Passions Responsibility
Philosophy Revolution
Pleasure Roles
Politics
Poverty
Power
Precepts
Probability
Saint Thought Understanding
Salvation Time Universe
Science Truth
Self
Self-love
Sex
Society
Suicide
Vice Weakness Youth
Virtue Wisdom
Woman
Words
World

 


See also: Proverbs


Literature: Auden & Kronenberger, Chamfort, Bierce, Chamfort, Cohen & Cohen, Fuller, Lichtenberg, Mackay, Peter, Rochefoucauld, Seldes

 Original: Mar 26, 2005                                                Last edited: 06 February 2008.   Top