Philosophical literatureThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George SantayanaThe Life of Reason · 1905★ 8.8
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression, even though that cost be blood.W.E.B. Du Bois1909★ 7.0
Autobiography and memoirPolitics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams · 1907★ 6.9
Novel · Children's literatureHe saw clearly how plain and simple—how narrow, even—it all was; but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one's existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there; the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.Kenneth GrahameThe Wind in the Willows · 1908★ 6.9
PoemWe need in love to practice only this: Letting each other go. For holding on Comes easily; we do not need to learn it.Rainer Maria Rilke1909★ 6.9
LetterOnce the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.Rainer Maria Rilke1901★ 6.8
Personal journalBut perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.Anton Chekhov1904★ 6.2
Personal journalPessimism (or rather what is called such) is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.Thomas Hardy1902★ 6.0
Philosophical speechI firmly disbelieve, myself, that our human experience is the highest form of experience extant in the universe. I believe rather that we stand in much the same relation to the whole of the universe as our canine and feline pets do to the whole of human life. They inhabit our drawing-rooms and libraries. They take part in scenes of whose significance they have no inkling. They are merely tangent to curves of history the beginnings and ends and forms of which pass wholly beyond their ken. So we are tangent to the wider life of things.William JamesPragmatism · 1906★ 6.0
SociologyWhy did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?W.E.B. Du BoisThe Souls of Black Folk · 1903★ 5.5
NovelThere is a weird power in a spoken word... And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.Joseph ConradLord Jim · 1900★ 5.5
Philosophical literatureNothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.Friedrich NietzscheEcce Homo · 1908★ 5.5
In life, as in a foot-ball game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!Theodore Roosevelt1900★ 5.4
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