1921 · Skopia

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus · 1921

★ 7.1

Play

You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

George Bernard Shaw

1921

★ 6.9

Poem

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

1921

★ 5.3

Novel · Modernist literature

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time · 1921

★ 5.3

Lecture

The law must be stable, and yet it cannot stand still.

Roscoe Pound

1921

★ 5.2

Historical literature

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion... A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

Samuel Eliot Morison

1921

★ 5.0

Novel · Magazine

They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

G.K. Chesterton

1921

★ 3.6

Poem · Magazine

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers · 1921

★ 3.6

Psychological literature

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Carl Jung

Psychological Types · 1921

★ 3.5

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Christian Louis Lange

1921

★ 3.5

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Ray Cummings

1921

★ 3.5

Play · Comedy (play)

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

W. Somerset Maugham

1921

★ 3.5

Personal journal

Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

1921

★ 1.9

Short story

The tragedy of love is indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

1921

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.9

Language and our thought-grooves are inextricably interwoven, are, in a sense, one and the same.

Edward Sapir

1921

★ 1.9

Novel · Modernist literature

Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realise how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time · 1921

★ 1.9

Novel

Chumps always make the best husbands... All the unhappy marriages come from the husband having brains.

P.G. Wodehouse

1921

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

America, our America, the America builded on the foundation laid by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations which will subject our decisions to any other than our own authority.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding · 1921

★ 1.9

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