1910

Autobiography and memoir · Autobiography and memoir

Mark Twain's Autobiography · 1910

★ 6.2

In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

The Autobiography of Mark Twain · 1910

★ 5.5

My position as regards the moneyed interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily, and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand, for property belongs to man and not man to property.

1910

★ 5.3

Railway termini... Are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.

E.M. Forster

Howards End · 1910

★ 5.2

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics · 1910

★ 4.4

Treatise

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

1910

★ 3.6

Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics · 1910

★ 3.6

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics · 1910

★ 3.6

Short story

God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will punish you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man.

1910

★ 3.6

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream—a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought—a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

The Mysterious Stranger · 1910

★ 3.6

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

If · 1910

★ 3.6

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

If · 1910

★ 3.6

I that have not your faith, how shall I know That in the blinding light beyond the grave We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?

W.B. Yeats

1910

★ 3.6

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

1910

★ 3.6

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

1910

★ 3.6

Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissues with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil.

E.M. Forster

Howards End · 1910

★ 3.5

Essay

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

G.K. Chesterton

1910

★ 3.5

But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude · 1910

★ 3.5

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude · 1910

★ 3.5

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude · 1910

★ 3.5

Lecture

Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

Adolf Loos

1910

★ 3.5

Essay

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

Emma Goldman

1910

★ 2.0

Short story

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

1910

★ 2.0

To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

E.M. Forster

Howards End · 1910

★ 1.9

Letter · Religious literature

It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history...and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

1910

★ 1.9

I stand for the square deal, But when I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.

Anarchism, then, really, stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government.

1910

★ 1.9

Essay · Political literature

Emma Goldman

1910

★ 1.9

Sociology

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Jane Addams

1910

★ 1.9

Short story

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P.G. Wodehouse

1910

★ 1.9

Oh, love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

W.B. Yeats

1910

★ 1.9

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

No man has a wholly undiseased mind; that in one way or another all men are mad.

The Mysterious Stranger · 1910

★ 1.3

Essay

1910

★ 1.3

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.