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Religion
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Belief: comfort or conflict?
Religion is a structured system of beliefs, practices, and worldviews that connect humanity to an order of existence greater than themselves, often involving a belief in a supernatural power or powers and a moral code to live by. It provides meaning, purpose, and a framework for understanding life's biggest questions, offering comfort, community, and a sense of belonging within a world often perceived as chaotic and uncertain.
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# Religion & Critics of religion
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Slavoj Žižek" (Quotes, The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989))
“16”
— Slavoj Zizek
Academics from Slovenia
Sociologists from Slovenia
1949 births
Living people
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Virginia Woolf" (Quotes, A Room of One's Own (1929):
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“Ch. 2,”
— Virginia Woolf
Feminists from England
Atheists from England
Novelists from England
Essayists from England
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Bill Maher" (Quotes, New Rules: A Work Revolution (2023): Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) (3 February 2023))
“I want?”
— Bill Maher
Actors from the United States
Stand-up comedians from the United States
Atheists from the United States
Atheism activists
Context: • recurring phrase
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Breakfast of Champions (1973):
Full title: Breakfast of Champions, Or Goodbye Blue Monday!)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Breakfast of Champions (1973):
Full title: Breakfast of Champions, Or Goodbye Blue Monday!)
“And so on.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Academics from the United States
Absurdists
Agnostics from the United States
HumanistsContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Bill Maher" (Quotes, New Rules: A Work Revolution (2023): Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) (3 February 2023))
“him.”
— Bill Maher
# Religion & Philosophy
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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
Religion
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
Monism
PhilosophyU
Context: • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within. (November 30, 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fate" (Quotes)
“Fate is Never Final.”
— Unknown
Themes
BeliefU
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
# Religion & Belief
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Context: • John Milton, Comus (1637), line 519.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Unbelief" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Unbelief" (Quotes)
“Unbelief is blind.”
— 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: • 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
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Context: • Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Chapter V.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oblivion" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 564-65.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oblivion" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 564-65.)
“Oblivion is not to be hired.”
— Unknown
Death# Religion & Cultural critics
Context: • Final line
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969):
Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death These are just a few samples, for more from this work see Slaughterhouse-Five)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969):
Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death These are just a few samples, for more from this work see Slaughterhouse-Five)
“"Poo-Tee-Weet?"”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Context: • Prologue, and a recurring phrase throughout the book.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slapstick (1976):
Full title: Slapstick, or Lonesome No More)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slapstick (1976):
Full title: Slapstick, or Lonesome No More)
“Hi Ho”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Context: • God or Nature
• Part IV, Preface (Deum seu Naturam, Deus seu Natura);
• Source: Wikiquote: "Baruch Spinoza" (Quotes, Ethics (1677))
• Part IV, Preface (Deum seu Naturam, Deus seu Natura);
• Source: Wikiquote: "Baruch Spinoza" (Quotes, Ethics (1677))
“Deus seu Natura”
— Baruch Spinoza
1632 births
1677 deaths
People from Amsterdam
MonistsContext: • Recurring statement throughout the novel on the subject of life, death and mortal existence.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969):
Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death These are just a few samples, for more from this work see Slaughterhouse-Five)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969):
Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death These are just a few samples, for more from this work see Slaughterhouse-Five)
“So it goes.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Context: • Book 1
• Source: Wikiquote: "Arthur Schopenhauer" (Quotes, The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859):
Quotations from translations of Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (first edition published in 1819, the second in 1844, the third in 1859; certain quotes appear only in specific editions) – Also translated as The World as Will and Idea – Full translation online at Wikisource)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Arthur Schopenhauer" (Quotes, The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859):
Quotations from translations of Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (first edition published in 1819, the second in 1844, the third in 1859; certain quotes appear only in specific editions) – Also translated as The World as Will and Idea – Full translation online at Wikisource)
“My body and my will are one.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
1788 births
1860 deaths
19th-century philosophers
Antinatalists# Religion & Social critics
“When you're dead you're dead.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Hocus Pocus (1990))
“They're playin our song Gene!”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Hocus Pocus (1990))
“How embarrassing to be human.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Frankie Boyle" (Stand-up, Excited for You to See and Hate This (2020))
“Hello you cunts, black power!”
— Frankie Boyle
1972 births
Stand-up comedians
Humorists
Context: • Comments at A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, San Francisco, California (5 February 2004)
• Source: Wikiquote: "William Gibson" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "William Gibson" (Quotes)
“The future is not google-able.”
— William Gibson
Science fiction authors from the United States
1948 births
Novelists from the United StatesMore Quotes
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Context: • As quoted in "The Fred Phelps Song" (2009), YouTube
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fred Phelps" (Quotes, 2000s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fred Phelps" (Quotes, 2000s)
“Oh, so good.”
— Fred Waldron Phelps
Westboro Baptist Church
Christian leaders
Critics of Islam
Lawyers from the United StatesU
Context: • A misprint from the Bible published in 1712. (John 8:11).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Sin" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Sin" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895):
Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
“Sin on more.”
— Unknown
VicesContext: • Source: Wikiquote: "Bill Maher" (Quotes, New Rules: A Work Revolution (2023): Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) (3 February 2023))
“him.”
— Bill Maher
Musicians from the United States
Singer-songwriters from the United States
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "William Blake" (Quotes, 1780s, Annotations to Lavater (1788))
“Damn sneerers!”
— William Blake
Romantic poets
Poets from England
Painters from England
IllustratorsContext: • Final line
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969):
Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death These are just a few samples, for more from this work see Slaughterhouse-Five)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kurt Vonnegut" (Quotes, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969):
Full title: Slaughterhouse-Five, Or The Children's Crusade : A Duty-dance with Death These are just a few samples, for more from this work see Slaughterhouse-Five)
“"Poo-Tee-Weet?"”
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Prophecy" (Quotes, M, Mahabharata, Book 3, Vana Parva ~400 BCE: full text online)
“After Kali Yuga”
— Unknown
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Context: • 20:21 (KJV) Asked of the mother of the sons of Zebedee, who answered that she wanted one son to sit on Jesus's left hand and one on his right.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jesus" (Quotes from the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 20–24)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jesus" (Quotes from the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 20–24)
“What wilt thou?”
— Unknown
God
BCE births
1st century deaths
People from BethlehemU
Context: • 26:25 (KJV) Said to Judas.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jesus" (Quotes from the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 25–26)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jesus" (Quotes from the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew, Chapters 25–26)
“Thou hast said.”
— Unknown
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Greek gods
Context: • p. 185
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jean-Paul Sartre" (Quotes, Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952):
Saint Genet, comédien et martyr (Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr) (1952), Gallimard)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jean-Paul Sartre" (Quotes, Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952):
Saint Genet, comédien et martyr (Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr) (1952), Gallimard)
“Moral solipsism.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 births
1980 deaths
Anarchists from France
Anti-fascists
Context: • Vol. i. p. 106. Compare: "None ever loved but at first sight they loved", George Chapman, The Blind Beggar of Alexandria.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Edward Gibbon" (Quotes, Memoirs (1796))
• Source: Wikiquote: "Edward Gibbon" (Quotes, Memoirs (1796))
“I saw and loved.”
— Edward Gibbon
Academics from England
Politicians from England
Historians from England
Non-fiction authors from EnglandU
Context: • Aristotle, Politica, I, 2 (referring to the ambiguous Delphic Oracles).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oracle" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 572.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oracle" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 572.)
“A Delphic sword.”
— Unknown
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Context: • As quoted in "The Fred Phelps Song" (2009), YouTube
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fred Phelps" (Quotes, 2000s)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fred Phelps" (Quotes, 2000s)
“Shut the hell up!”
— Fred Waldron Phelps
Context: • Telegram to his publisher regarding the sales of Les Misérables. The publisher's reply was an encouraging "!"; as quoted in "No invention more clearly showed the benefits of brevity than the telegram" by Ben Macintyre in The Times (4 March 2006)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Victor Hugo" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Victor Hugo" (Quotes)
“?”
— Victor Hugo
Academics from France
Poets from France
1802 birthsU
Context: • Prideaux, Directions to Churchwardens (Ed. 1712), p. 105.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Providence" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643-45.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Providence" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 643-45.)
“Lap of providence.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Milton, Comus (1637), line 519.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Unbelief" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Unbelief" (Quotes)
“Unbelief is blind.”
— Unknown
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