1905

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.

The Life of Reason · 1905

★ 8.8

Scientific literature

Henri Poincare

The Value of Science · 1905

★ 5.1

Play · Drama (play)

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

George Bernard Shaw

1905

★ 3.6

Magazine

The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

1905

★ 3.6

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie Anderson Stanley

1905

★ 3.5

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress · 1905

★ 3.5

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress · 1905

★ 3.5

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

Man is a successful animal, that's all.

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress · 1905

★ 3.5

Remy de Gourmont

1905

★ 3.5

Speech

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

1905

★ 2.1

There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously.

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt · 1905

★ 2.1

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as be seems a people with such responsibilities.

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt · 1905

★ 2.0

We know that self-government is difficult. We know that no people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it.

Do not overlook the little joys!

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt · 1905

★ 2.0

Essay

Hermann Hesse

1905

★ 1.9

Short story

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G.K. Chesterton

1905

★ 1.9

Short story

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry

1905

★ 1.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgement or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lochner v. New York · 1905

★ 1.9

Novel

Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle · 1905

★ 1.9

Interview

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God... I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

John D. Rockefeller

1905

★ 1.8

Speech

Instead of holding a position of independence, between the wealthy and the people, prepared to curb the excesses of either, able lawyers have, to a large extent, allowed themselves to become adjuncts of great corporations and have neglected the obligation to use their powers for the protection of the people. We hear much of the "corporation lawyer," and far too little of the "people's lawyer."

Louis Brandeis

1905

★ 1.8

Cure yourself of the condition of bothering about how you look to other people. Concern yourself only with how you appear to God, with the idea that God has of you.

Miguel de Unamuno

1905

★ 1.7

Modern life is both complex and intense, and the tremendous changes wrought by the extraordinary industrial development of the last half century are felt in every fiber of our social and political being.