1880s · Skopia

Showing 181 quotes from the 1880s

Philosophical literature

God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 9.8

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul.

1888

★ 9.4

Political literature · Economic literature

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!

1883

★ 9.3

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1880

★ 7.8

Philosophical literature

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols · 1889

★ 7.7

Philosophical literature

"Where is God gone?" he called out. "I mean to tell you! We have killed him,—you and I! We are all his murderers!"

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 7.6

East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.

Rudyard Kipling

The Ballad of East and West · 1889

★ 7.5

Philosophical literature

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 7.5

Philosophical literature

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…it is the opium of the people.

Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right · 1883

★ 7.3

Philosophical literature

This is hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 7.3

Philosophical literature

What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science · 1882

★ 7.3

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

1881

★ 7.3

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

The New Colossus · 1883

★ 7.2

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

1884

★ 7.1

Autobiography and memoir · Travel writing

There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

1883

★ 7.0

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

1887

★ 6.9

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William E. Gladstone

1886

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature

In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 6.5

Philosophical literature

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 6.4

Philosophical literature

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 6.4

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