1925

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The great question that has never been answered…is what does a woman want?

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 7.3

Sigmund Freud

1925

★ 7.1

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

Willa Cather

The Professor's House · 1925

★ 6.9

That's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man.

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 6.4

Essay

Jose Ortega y Gasset

1925

★ 6.1

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

The great masses of the people...more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one.

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 5.5

Autobiography and memoir

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf · 1925

★ 5.4

Speech

The chief business of the American people is business.

Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, "Nigger." I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That's all that I remember.

1925

★ 5.3

Poem

Countee Cullen

Incident · 1925

★ 5.0

Political literature · Autobiography and memoir

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf · 1925

★ 4.6

Letter

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1925

★ 4.5

Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 3.9

America seeks no earthly empire built on blood and force. No ambition, no temptation, lures her to thought of foreign dominions.

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925

★ 3.6

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 3.5

Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

1925

★ 3.5

Lecture

The religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

Alfred North Whitehead

Religion and Science · 1925

★ 3.5

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 2.2

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

The Great Gatsby · 1925

★ 2.1

In the realm of the emotions, the real is indistinguishable from the imaginary.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 1.9

Courtroom speech · Speech

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

1925

★ 1.9

But there is another element, more important than all, without which there can not be the slightest hope of a permanent peace. That element lies in the heart of humanity. Unless the desire for peace be cherished there, unless this fundamental and only natural source of brotherly love be cultivated to its highest degree, all artificial efforts will be in vain. Peace will come when there is realization that only under a reign of law, based on righteousness and supported by the religious conviction of the brotherhood of man, can there be any hope of a complete and satisfying life.

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925

★ 1.9

Since its very outset, it has been found necessary to conduct our Government by means of political parties. That system would not have survived from generation to generation if it had not been fundamentally sound and provided the best instrumentalities for the most complete expression of the popular will. It is not necessary to claim that it has always worked perfectly. It is enough to know that nothing better has been devised.

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925

★ 1.9

Our system of government made up of three separate and independent departments, our divided sovereignty composed of Nation and State, the matchless wisdom that is enshrined in our Constitution, all these need constant effort and tireless vigilance for their protection and support.

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925

★ 1.9

It is necessary to keep the former experiences of our country both at home and abroad continually before us, if we are to have any science of government. If we wish to erect new structures, we must have a definite knowledge of the old foundations. We must realize that human nature is about the most constant thing in the universe and that the essentials of human relationship do not change. We must frequently take our bearings from these fixed stars of our political firmament if we expect to hold a true course. If we examine carefully what we have done, we can determine the more accurately what we can do.

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925

★ 1.9

The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters · 1925

★ 1.0

Poem

Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light.

Eugenio Montale

1925

★ 1.0

Speech · Scientific literature

The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

Alfred North Whitehead

1925

★ 1.0

This country believes in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that it is envious of those who are already prosperous. The wise and correct course to follow in taxation and all other economic legislation is not to destroy those who have already secured success but to create conditions under which every one will have a better chance to be successful.

Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge · 1925

★ 1.0

Our Congress represents the people and the States. In all legislative affairs it is the natural collaborator with the President. In spite of all the criticism which often falls to its lot, I do not hesitate to say that there is no more independent and effective legislative body in the world. It is, and should be, jealous of its prerogative. I welcome its cooperation, and expect to share with it not only the responsibility, but the credit, for our common effort to secure beneficial legislation.