NovelWho knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.Joseph ConradUnder Western Eyes · 1911★ 5.3
NovelA belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joseph ConradUnder Western Eyes · 1911★ 3.6
NovelThe scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement—but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.Joseph ConradUnder Western Eyes · 1911★ 3.5
Speech · Political speechWhen a just cause reaches its flood-tide... Whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.Carrie Chapman Catt1911★ 3.5
Scientific literatureIt is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle-they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.Alfred North WhiteheadAn Introduction to Mathematics · 1911★ 3.5
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.Elbert Hubbard1911★ 3.5
LetterIs there not a casual connection between the development of these huge, indomitable trusts and the horrible crimes now under investigation?... Is it not irony to speak of the equality of opportunity in a country cursed with their bigness?Louis Brandeis1911★ 3.5
Business literatureIn the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.Frederick Winslow Taylor1911★ 1.9
Scientific literatureCivilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.Alfred North Whitehead1911★ 1.9
PoemThe Past is like a funeral gone by The Future comes like an unwelcomed guest.Edmund Gosse1911★ 1.8
LetterThe country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labour.Helen Keller1911★ 1.2
Short story · Magazine · Detective fictionWe are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man...one of the most unscrupulous rascals that Australia has ever evolved—and for a young country it has turned out some very finished types.Arthur Conan DoyleThe Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax · 1911★ 1.0
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