1886 · Skopia

Showing 23 quotes from 1886

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 7.5

Speech

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

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 6.4

Philosophical literature

It is not the strength but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 5.5

Poem

Much Madness is divinest Sense — To a discerning Eye — Much Sense—the starkest Madness — 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail — Assent—and you are sane — Demur—you're straightway dangerous — And handled with a Chain —

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 5.2

Poem

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 5.2

Philosophical literature

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 4.8

Lecture

God made integers, all else is the work of man.

Leopold Kronecker

1886

★ 4.5

Philosophical literature

The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil · 1886

★ 3.9

Novella · Science fiction

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · 1886

★ 3.8

Political literature

There are but three generations in America from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves.

Andrew Carnegie

1886

★ 3.7

Poem

We never know how high we are Till we are asked to rise And then if we are true to plan Our statures touch the skies.

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 3.7

Letter

I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.

T.H. Huxley

1886

★ 3.7

Letter

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

W.B. Yeats

1886

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

1886

★ 3.7

Poem

That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love; It is enough, the freight should be Proportioned to the groove.

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 3.6

Essay

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

1886

★ 3.5

Poem

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes.

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 2.8

Speech

Once I moved about like the wind. Now I surrender to you and that is all.

Geronimo

Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee · 1886

★ 2.2

Poem

Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me.

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 2.1

Poem

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you–Nobody–Too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise–you know! How dreary–to be–Somebody! How public–like a Frog– To tell one's name–the livelong June – To an admiring Bog!

Emily Dickinson

1886

★ 1.9

Nature writing

One goes to Nature only for hints and half truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

John Burroughs

1886

★ 0.9