Everything
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"Everything is what it is, and not another thing." --a maxim by Joseph Butler, epigraph to Principia Ethica (1903) by G. E. Moore "I am nothing but I must be everything." --The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon (1852) by Karl Marx |
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Everything (or every thing), is all that exists; the opposite of nothing, or its complement. The totality of things relevant to some subject matter. Without expressed or implied limits, it may refer to anything. The Universe is often defined as everything that exists. It may refer to an anthropocentric worldview, Every object and entity is a part of everything, including all physical bodies and in some cases all abstract objects.
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In ordinary conversation, everything usually refers only to the totality of things relevant to the subject matter. When there is no expressed limitation, everything may refer to the universe or the world.
The Universe is most commonly defined as everything that physically exists: the entirety of time, all forms of matter, energy and momentum, and the physical laws and constants that govern them.
Especially in a metaphysical context, World may refer to everything that constitutes reality and the Universe: see World (philosophy). However, world may "only" refer to Earth envisioned from an anthropocentric or human worldview, as a place by human beings.
Namesakes
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan... But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock a 1993 book by Slavoj Žižek
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask), a sex manual by David Reuben
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (film), a film by Woody Allen
- Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong, a book by Disinfo
- Everything Is Everything, poem read by Bootsy
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