1922

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 7.0

Siddhartha · 1922

★ 6.2

The bonds between ourselves and another person exist only in our minds. Memory as it grows fainter loosens them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we want to be duped and which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we dupe other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature who cannot escape from himself, who knows other people only in himself, and when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 6.1

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 5.5

Courtroom speech · Speech

1922

★ 5.4

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Havelock Ellis

1922

★ 5.1

Courtroom speech · Speech

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

1922

★ 4.6

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 4.5

James George Frazer

The Golden Bough · 1922

★ 4.3

Personal journal

How can you hesitate? Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

1922

★ 4.3

Sociology

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

Emily Post

1922

★ 3.8

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Ulysses · 1922

★ 3.8

The sea... The snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

Ulysses · 1922

★ 3.8

Shut your eyes and see.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ulysses · 1922

★ 3.8

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1922

★ 3.8

Poem

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

T.S. Eliot

The Waste Land · 1922

★ 3.8

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 3.7

Newspaper

Anatole France

1922

★ 3.6

Poem · War poetry

They died to save their country and they only saved the world.

G.K. Chesterton

1922

★ 3.6

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

1922

★ 3.6

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 3.6

Novel · Satire

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt · 1922

★ 3.6

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

H.L. Mencken

1922

★ 3.5

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H.L. Mencken

1922

★ 3.5

Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which would otherwise have remained unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.

Oh how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

1922

★ 3.5

Poem

A.E. Housman

1922

★ 3.5

Autobiography and memoir

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitzer

1922

★ 3.5

Political literature

The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes. We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them.

Walter Lippmann

Public Opinion · 1922

★ 3.5

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

George Santayana

1922

★ 2.8

Poem

The sea, the ever renewing sea!

Paul Valery

The Graveyard by the Sea · 1922

★ 2.8

Novel · Magazine

The victor belongs to the spoils.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Metropolitan Magazine · 1922

★ 2.2

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 2.2

Love... Is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 2.2

History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Ulysses · 1922

★ 2.1

Treatise · Philosophical literature

Ludwig Wittgenstein

1922

★ 2.1

Magazine

Civil disobedience... Becomes a sacred duty when the State has become lawless, or... Corrupt.

1922

★ 2.1

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 2.1

Speech

Rob him of his illusions, and man would perish of very weariness and despair.

1922

★ 2.1

Autobiography and memoir

Anatole France

1922

★ 1.9

Sociology

Ideal conversation is an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

Emily Post

1922

★ 1.9

Novel · Philosophical literature

Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.

Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden.

Siddhartha · 1922

★ 1.9

Novel · Philosophical literature

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

Siddhartha · 1922

★ 1.9

Novel · Philosophical literature

Thus it came to him merely to run away was folly, because he could never run away from himself.

Siddhartha · 1922

★ 1.9

Novel · Satire

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt · 1922

★ 1.9

Play

Public opinion's always in advance of the law.

John Galsworthy

1922

★ 1.9

Novel · Satire

But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt · 1922

★ 1.9

Novel

There is only one success, he said to himself-to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

1922

★ 1.8

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

1922

★ 1.8

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Havelock Ellis

1922

★ 1.8

Personal journal

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy-deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield

1922

★ 1.8

Speech · Political speech

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

George V

1922

★ 1.8

Religious literature

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Wise people... Are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations.

1922

★ 1.3

Autobiography and memoir

Henry Ford

1922

★ 1.2

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.