1901 · Skopia

Showing 15 quotes from 1901

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Buddenbrooks · 1901

★ 6.9

Once 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 Rilke

1901

★ 6.8

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Albert Einstein

1901

★ 4.6

Autobiography and memoir

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington

Up From Slavery · 1901

★ 3.8

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, “Where is the best place to go to?” He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages—heaven for climate, and hell for society.

1901

★ 3.7

This is a great and terrible world. I never knew there were so many men alive in it.

Rudyard Kipling

Kim · 1901

★ 3.7

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1901

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. They are inconvenient. They cost us something. But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?

William McKinley

Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley · 1901

★ 3.5

Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

G.K. Chesterton

1901

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

On the whole, and in the long run, we shall go up or down together.

Theodore Roosevelt

1901 State of the Union Address · 1901

★ 2.1

Who hath desired the Sea? The sight of salt water unbounded?

Rudyard Kipling

Kim · 1901

★ 2.0

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

1901

★ 1.9

Man must work by the sweat of his brow whatever his class, and that should make up the whole meaning and purpose of his life and happiness and contentment.

1901

★ 1.9

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—"free-love"—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word.

G.K. Chesterton

1901

★ 1.8

Scientific literature

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

1901

★ 0.9