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Questions seeking to identify the source of a quote. If possible, include the exact quote whose origin you're seeking, or describe it as closely as you can. (For questions seeking to identify a entire story or work of literature from some remembered details, use the [identification-request] tag instead.)
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Who said that when you know something, it is hard to pretend not to know?
What you describe sounds like the cognitive bias known as the curse of knowledge. The term was coined in 1989 but the concept has been around longer. It was especially popularised in the book Made to …
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Who said that history is a lie/fable agreed upon?
The version I found in French is
L'histoire est une suite de mensonges sur lesquels on est d'accord.
Translation:
History is a series of lies that people have agreed upon.
Napoleon supposedly said …
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Where does the quote “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certa...
Steve Jobs may have misremembered a quote from Andrew Sinclair's 1964 novel The Raker, from which Google Books gives the following snippet:
If you live each day as if it were your last, Death is hard …
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Helen Keller quote about avoiding danger: context and meaning
The quote comes from Let Us Have Faith, a book published in 1940, i.e. after the beginning of World War II. (Keller mentions "the wrecking of half a civilization" in the book's first sentence.) Becaus …
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What is the source of the quote "Robust grass endures mighty winds..."?
I have read all of Shakespeare's works and the quote does not even sound like a Shakespeare quote. Most of Shakespeare's works are written in a type of verse known as iambic pentameter and the quote c …
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Who was Coleridge's "schoolman"?
The same phrase can also be found in Elements of Religious Philosophy, Preliminary to the Aphorism on Spiritual Religion (reprinted in The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 9: Aids to …
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Who said "Poetry is the art of giving different names to the same thing"?
The earliest occurrence I could find through the snippet view of Google Books dates from 1935:
I once quoted that mot to a poet, and got the quick response:
“Poetry is the art of giving different nam …
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Who said "If you don't do politics, politics will do you"?
This is possibly a misremembered quote from The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society (1970) by the American philosopher Marshall Berman (1940–2013). The …
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Identify the source of this quote by T.S. Eliot
The source of the quote is one of the last paragraphs in T. S. Eliot's essay "Religion & Literature", which was based on a lecture and published in the collection Essays Ancient and Modern in 1936.
On …
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"There are three sorts of people: those who are alive, those who are dead, and those who are...
I found a French version of the quote on histoire-genealogie.com, where it was attributed to Plato:
« Il y a trois sortes d’hommes : les vivants, les morts, et ceux qui vont en mer » (Platon : Critia …
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Why does Aristotle reckon that the secret to humor is surprise?
The most likely sources of that Aristotle quote (if it is one) would be the Poetics and the Rhetoric. Searching the Poetics for "humo[r]", "secret" and "surprise" (individually) in the translations by …
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Where did Thomas Nashe get the Latin quote he attributes to Epicharmus?
The original Greek quote can be found on page 144 (line 255) of Friedrich W. A. Mullach's Fragmenta philosophorum greacorum, a collection of fragments of ancient Greek philosophers published by Didot …
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Source of Diderot quote about tools and ideas
After some more research, I found out that "outils" was a red herring; Diderot used the word "instruments" in the original quote. Its source is Pensées sur l'interprétation de la Nature, which Diderot …
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On a quote of Hegel in L'été (Summer) of Camus
As far as I know, the city (German: Stadt) is not an important concept in Hegel's philosophy. However, the state (German: Staat) is an important concept, especially in his Elements of the Philosophy o …
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Who and for what called Shelley “beautiful and ineffectual angel”?
The quote originates from Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism: Second Series, published in 1888, shortly after the author's death. The quote's context goes as follows (page 168)
I for my part can ne …
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