1880 · Skopia

Showing 18 quotes from 1880

The Brothers Karamazov · 1880

★ 7.8

Novel

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

Lew Wallace

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ · 1880

★ 6.1

Letter

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

Lucretia Mott

1880

★ 6.1

Novel

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

Novel

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.

Oscar Wilde

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

Letter

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

Letter

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

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert · 1880

★ 3.7

Letter

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.

Mark Twain

1880

★ 3.7

Lecture

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Common Law · 1880

★ 3.7

Lecture

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

T.H. Huxley

1880

★ 3.7

Lecture

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

T.H. Huxley

1880

★ 3.6

Lecture

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

Novel

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.

Edward Bellamy

1880

★ 3.5

Travel writing

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.

Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad · 1880

★ 2.1

Travel writing

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.

Mark Twain

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.

T.H. Huxley

1880

★ 1.9