1924 · Skopia

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1924

★ 6.9

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century beings it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 6.0

Novel

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 5.2

Love poem · Poem

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

1924

★ 3.9

Short story

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Saki

1924

★ 3.6

Novel

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 3.5

Philosophical literature

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

R.G. Collingwood

1924

★ 3.5

Essay · Satire

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

1924

★ 3.5

Novel

And waiting means hurrying on ahead, it means regarding time and the present moment not as a boon, but an obstruction; it means making their actual content null and void, by mentally overleaping them. Waiting we say is long. We might just as well-or more accurately-say it is short, since it consumes whole spaces of time without our living them or making any use of them as such.

Thomas Mann

1924

★ 3.5

Psychological literature

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

John B. Watson

Behaviorism · 1924

★ 3.4

Short story · Detective fiction

With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

Agatha Christie

The Kidnapped Prime Minister · 1924

★ 2.1

Lecture

The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the adversaries of that class.

Joseph Stalin

1924

★ 2.0

Political literature

Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

Leon Trotsky

Literature and Revolution · 1924

★ 1.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Louis Brandeis

Jay Burns Baking Co. vs. Bryan · 1924

★ 1.9

Novel

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 1.9

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers

1924

★ 1.9

Novel

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 1.8

Novel

For time is the medium of narration, as it is the medium of life. Both are inextricably bound up with it, as inextricably as are bodies in space. Similarly, time is the medium of music; music divides, measures, articulates time, and can shorten it, yet enhance its value, both at once.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain · 1924

★ 1.8

Speech · Political speech

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin

1924

★ 1.8

Legal opinion · Legal writing

A long line of cases shows that it is not merely of some importance, but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.

Gordon Hewart

Rex v. Sussex Justices · 1924

★ 1.7