1903 · Skopia

Showing 32 quotes from 1903

Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity.

Remy de Gourmont

1903

★ 6.0

Sociology

Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house?

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk · 1903

★ 5.5

Poem

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers · 1903

★ 5.2

Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.

Georg Simmel

The Metropolis and Mental Life · 1903

★ 5.1

Play · Drama (play)

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 5.1

Play · Drama (play)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman · 1903

★ 5.1

Essay

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

Optimism · 1903

★ 4.5

Political literature

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt

1903

★ 4.5

Personal journal

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Mark Twain

1903

★ 3.8

Sociology

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others... One feels his twoness-an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivngs; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk · 1903

★ 3.7

Sociology

The Negro folk-song-the rhythmic cry of the slave-stands today not simply as the sole American music, but as the most beautiful expression of human experience born this side the seas. It has been neglected, it has been, and is, half despised, and above all it has been persistently mistaken and misunderstood; but notwithstanding, it still remains as the singular spiritual heritage of the nation and the greatest gift of the Negro people.

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk · 1903

★ 3.7

Play · Drama (play)

Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 3.6

Poem

I heard the old, old men say, "All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters."

W.B. Yeats

1903

★ 3.6

Poem

I heard the old, old men say, “Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.”

W.B. Yeats

1903

★ 3.6

Play · Drama (play)

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 3.5

Novel

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Jack London

The Call of the Wild · 1903

★ 3.5

Novel · Magazine

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

Jack London

The Saturday Evening Post · 1903

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

Charles Sanders Peirce

1903

★ 3.5

Play · Drama (play)

In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 3.5

Play · Drama (play)

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman · 1903

★ 2.7

Play · Drama (play)

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 1.9

Play · Drama (play)

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 1.9

Personal journal

I believe that humor is a part of beauty.

Max Beckmann

1903

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

Theodore Roosevelt

1903

★ 1.9

Poem

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring.

W.B. Yeats

1903

★ 1.9

Play

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

George Bernard Shaw

1903

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

Henry James

North American Review · 1903

★ 1.9

Essay

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Allen

1903

★ 1.9

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest 57 seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.

Orville Wright

1903

★ 1.9

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.

Matthew Arnold

1903

★ 1.9

Essay

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

1903

★ 1.3

Speech

I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is.

Theodore Roosevelt

1903

★ 1.1