Questions tagged [quote-source]
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 an entire story or work of literature from some remembered details, use the [identification-request] tag instead.)
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Where does Aristotle say that leisure is a prerequisite for philosophy?
Explaining why Miletus was a congenial environment for philosophy, Anthony Gottlieb writes:
It was a cultivated place, giving some people the leisure which Aristotle was later fond of claiming to be ...
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Wedding congratulations in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables
I remember from reading Victor Hugo's Les Misérables many years ago that towards the end when two of the main characters get married they receive a card with some wishes for a happy marriage. I'm ...
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Classical source for this Machiavelli aphorism?
In chapter 3 of The Prince, Machiavelli says:
So the Romans saw when troubles were coming and always took counter measures. They never, to avoid a war, allowed them to go unchecked, because they knew ...
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Where does Plutarch say that Egyptians claimed that Homer and Thales got their ideas about water from Egypt?
Describing the antecedents of Thales of Miletus's theory that the ārche or foundational substance of all matter was water, Anthony Gottlieb writes:
In Homer (eighth century BC), Okeanos, the ...
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Where does Homer say that Oceanus is the begetter of life and all the gods?
Describing the antecedents of Thales of Miletus's theory that the ārche or foundational substance of all matter was water, Anthony Gottlieb writes:
In Homer (eighth century BC), Okeanos, the ...
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What is the quote's pagination in *Resolves: divine, moral, political*?
I have the quote
The same City that bred him a slave; for his vertues,
chose him a King; and to his eternal Honour, left his
Statue paradox'd, with Servitude and Royalty.
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Quoted description in Season of Migration to the North
At the beginning of Season of Migration to the North, the unnamed narrator describes his feelings on being among his people after returning to his Sudanese village upon completing his doctoral ...
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To what song is the narrator of Coward's "Me and the Girls" referring?
George Banks, the dying narrator of Noël Coward's short story "Me and the Girls," opines:
You're born either hetero, bi, or homo and whichever way it goes there you are stuck with it. Mind ...
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Quote from Tarkovsky's "Die versiegelte Zeit" (Sculpting in Time)
I'm looking for the exact page number for a certain Tarkovsky quote in his Die versiegelte Zeit. The quote is as follows: "Ein Bild – das ist ein Eindruck von der Wahrheit, auf die wir mit ...
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Where in Tulsidas's works can the text of this composition in Raga Shree be found?
Vikas Kashalkar's edition of the compositions of Anant Manohar Joshi and Gajananrao Joshi includes the following bandiś of the latter's in Raga Shree:
चलो री माई राम सिया दरसन को
रघुनन्दन रथ में आवत ...
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Exact quote for "As my body slumbers in the dust / my soul has joined the assembly of the just"?
As my body slumbers in the dust
My soul has joined the assembly of the just.
This is my general memory of a quote I read some time ago. Does anyone know the exact quote and author?
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Whom is James Baldwin quoting in this section from "Stranger in the Village"?
In "Stranger in the Village," an account of his experiences in the Swiss village of Luekerbad where he occasionally lived with his lover Lucien Happersberger, James Baldwin writes:
At the ...
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What is the original of the line Alan Grant is deliberately misquoting?
Josephine Tey's first mystery, The Man in the Queue (1929), is available for download or online perusal at Standard eBooks. Early in the novel, the beleaguered Inspector Alan Grant is being reassured ...
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Who said that as soon as thought dries up, it is replaced by words?
In Hope abandoned by Nadezhda Mandelstam (page 10), we have:
One of the most brilliant men in the history of mankind once said that as soon as thought dries up, it is replaced by words.
Whom does ...
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Quote origin: "fan the fevered brow"
George D. Prentice, The Bereaved Sister (1831):
I persuaded the girl to go for a short time upon deck, that her own fevered brow might be fanned by the twilight breeze.
B. A. Eaton, "The ...
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