1912 · Skopia

Showing 16 quotes from 1912

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

Phrynette Married · 1912

★ 6.9

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Miguel de Unamuno

The Tragic Sense of Life · 1912

★ 4.3

Philosophical literature

The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Bertrand Russell

1912

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

The Psychology of the Unconscious · 1912

★ 3.5

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

1912

★ 3.5

And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too.

1912

★ 3.5

There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that.

1912

★ 3.5

Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G.K. Chesterton

1912

★ 3.5

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

1912

★ 3.5

Just have one more try-it's dead easy to die, It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

Robert W. Service

1912

★ 3.5

As to the sea itself, love it you cannot. Why should you? I will never believe again the sea was ever loved by anyone whose life was married to it. It is the creation of Omnipotence, which is not of humankind and understandable, and so the springs of its behavior are hidden.

Henry Major Tomlinson

1912

★ 3.4

There is no human being on earth who is capable of declaring who he is, with certainty. No one knows what he has come to this world to do, to what his acts, feelings, ideas correspond, or what his real name is, his imperishable Name in the registry of Light.

1912

★ 3.4

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

1912

★ 1.9

I will cling to the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown.

The Old Rugged Cross · 1912

★ 1.8

In this century, which is the century of light and the revelation of mysteries... It is well established that mankind and womankind as parts of composite humanity are coequal and that no difference in estimate is allowable, for all are human.

The Promulgation of Universal Peace · 1912

★ 1.8

Personal journal

Great God! this is an awful place.

Robert Falcon Scott

1912

★ 1.0