1902 · Skopia

Showing 29 quotes from 1902

Pessimism (or rather what is called such) is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed.

Thomas Hardy

1902

★ 6.0

Poem

I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Masefield

Sea-Fever · 1902

★ 5.1

Psychological literature

A genuine first-hand religious experience... Is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman. If his doctrine prove contagious enough to spread to any others, it becomes a definite and labeled heresy. But if it then still prove contagious enough to triumph over persecution, it becomes itself an orthodoxy, its day of inwardness is over: the spring is dry; the faithful live at second hand exclusively and stone the prophets in their turn.

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience · 1902

★ 4.4

Scientific literature

To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.

Henri Poincare

Science and Hypothesis · 1902

★ 4.3

Short story · Children's literature

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Rudyard Kipling

The Elephant's Child · 1902

★ 3.7

Novel

Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

The Way of All Flesh · 1902

★ 3.6

Novel

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

The Way of All Flesh · 1902

★ 3.6

Novel

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

The Way of All Flesh · 1902

★ 3.6

Personal journal

God is Love-I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!

Samuel Butler (novelist)

1902

★ 3.6

Short story

A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

Jack London

1902

★ 3.5

Letter

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1902

★ 3.5

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

1902

★ 3.5

Novel

Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. Even if they are unhappy-very unhappy-it is astonishing how easily they can be prevented from finding it out, or at any rate from attributing it to any other cause than their own sinfulness.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

The Way of All Flesh · 1902

★ 3.5

Personal journal

An apology for the Devil: It must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

1902

★ 3.5

Poem

Yes, quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.

Thomas Hardy

1902

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.

Willa Cather

1902

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience · 1902

★ 3.5

Speech

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

William Osler

1902

★ 3.5

Poem

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call a clear call that may not be denied.

John Masefield

1902

★ 3.5

Speech

I do not believe there is any sort of distinction between the real moral conditions of the people in and out of jail. One is just as good as the other.... I do not believe that people are in jail because they deserve to be. They are in jail simply because they cannot avoid it on account of circumstances which are entirely beyond their control and for which they are in no way responsible.

Clarence Darrow

1902

★ 3.5

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