1929

Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

Letters to a Young Poet · 1929

★ 5.2

Novel · Coming of age

Thomas Wolfe

1929

★ 5.0

Why are women…so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 4.7

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals · 1929

★ 4.4

Novel · War novel

Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms · 1929

★ 3.9

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.8

The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.8

Novel

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop · 1929

★ 3.8

A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.

1929

★ 3.7

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.7

It is the masculine values that prevail... This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 3.7

Poem

D.H. Lawrence

1929

★ 3.6

The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals · 1929

★ 3.5

Magazine · Scientific literature

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

The Exploration of Space · 1929

★ 3.5

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

1929

★ 3.5

Poem

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark-a shining space With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.

Robert Graves

1929

★ 3.5

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

1929

★ 3.5

Essay

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Aldous Huxley

1929

★ 3.5

Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company.

William Moulton Marston

1929

★ 3.5

Interview · Magazine

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

1929

★ 2.9

Interview · Magazine

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

1929

★ 2.1

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 2.1

Helen Keller

1929

★ 1.9

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians.

1929

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Robert Graves

Goodbye to All That · 1929

★ 1.9

Speech

If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

1929

★ 1.9

Surely civilization is old enough, surely mankind is mature enough so that we ought in our own lifetime to find a way to permanent peace.

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover · 1929

★ 1.9

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover · 1929

★ 1.9

People have already had to rethink so many concepts of motion, and they will also gradually come to realize that what we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

1929

★ 1.9

Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and opportunity. In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity, and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover · 1929

★ 1.9

If we would prevent the growth of class distinctions and would constantly refresh our leadership with the ideals of our people, we must draw constantly from the general mass. The full opportunity for every boy and girl to rise through the selective processes of education can alone secure to us this leadership.

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover · 1929

★ 1.9

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

A Room of One's Own · 1929

★ 1.3

Autobiography and memoir

Aleister Crowley

1929

★ 1.1

Superficial observers seem to find no destiny for our abounding increase in population, in wealth and power except that of imperialism. They fail to see that the American people are engrossed in the building for themselves of a new economic system, a new social system, a new political system all of which are characterized by aspirations of freedom of opportunity and thereby are the negation of imperialism.