1871 · Skopia

Showing 20 quotes from 1871

Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system—with all these exalted powers—Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man · 1871

★ 8.5

Essay · Political literature

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas · 1871

★ 7.6

Novel

Life, what is it but a dream?

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass · 1871

★ 7.1

Scientific literature

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man · 1871

★ 6.3

Novel

If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass · 1871

★ 5.5

Poem

Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves.

Arthur Rimbaud

The Drunken Boat · 1871

★ 5.4

Novel · Children's literature

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax— Of cabbages—and kings— And why the sea is boiling hot— And whether pigs have wings."

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass · 1871

★ 5.4

Personal journal

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Thomas Hardy

1871

★ 5.2

Political literature

It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas · 1871

★ 3.9

Essay · Political literature

Always vote.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas · 1871

★ 3.9

Scientific literature

The Simiadae then branched off into two great stems, the New World and Old World monkeys; and from the latter, at a remote period, Man, the wonder and glory of the Universe, proceeded.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man · 1871

★ 3.8

Scientific literature

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man · 1871

★ 3.8

Novel · Children's literature

"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."

Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass · 1871

★ 3.8

Poem

Prose is for ideas, Verse is for visions.

Henrik Ibsen

1871

★ 3.7

Poem

I have bathed in the Poem of the Sea, steeped in Stars, and milky, devouring the green azures.

Arthur Rimbaud

1871

★ 3.6

Personal journal

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Francis Kilvert

1871

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dread enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs--as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex · 1871

★ 2.1

Letter

All newspaper and journalistic activity is an intellectual brothel from which there is no retreat.

Leo Tolstoy

1871

★ 2.1

No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

1871

★ 1.9

Lecture

The opinion seems to have got abroad, that, in a few years, all the great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry on these measurements to another place of decimals.

James Clerk Maxwell

1871

★ 1.8