1880 · Skopia

Showing 19 works across all media from 1880

Fiction · Philosophical fiction

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1880 · 832 pages

Old Karamazov is murdered and each of his three sons had reason. Around the crime Dostoevsky stages the fiercest argument fiction has ever made about God and the suffering of children.

★ 9.7

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

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ · 1880

★ 6.1

In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

1880

★ 6.1

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1880

★ 5.6

But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov · 1880

★ 5.6

Play · Tragic play

One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour.

1880

★ 5.4

The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

1880

★ 5.1

Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one, and war is a link in God's world order. In him, the noblest virtues of man, courage and renunciation, devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice, unfold with the institution of life. Without the war, the world would become bogged down in materialism.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

1880

★ 4.3

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert · 1880

★ 3.7

Anywhere is better than Paris. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the Damnable. More than a hundred years ago, somebody asked Quin, "Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?" "Yes," said he, "last summer." I judge he spent his summer in Paris.

1880

★ 3.7

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Common Law · 1880

★ 3.7

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

1880

★ 3.7

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

1880

★ 3.6

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Common Law · 1880

★ 3.5

I say that there is no such thing as moral responsibility for past acts, no such thing as real justice in punishing them, for the reason that human beings are not stationary existences, but changing, growing, incessantly progressive organisms, which in no two moments are the same. Therefore justice, whose only possible mode of proceeding is to punish in present time for what is done in past time, must always punish a person more or less similar to, but never identical with, the one who committed the offence, and therein must be no justice.

1880

★ 3.5

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example.

A Tramp Abroad · 1880

★ 2.1

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

A Tramp Abroad · 1880

★ 2.0

Essay · Scientific literature

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

1880

★ 1.9