1930 · Skopia

Showing 31 quotes from 1930

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

1930

★ 4.6

Essay · Magazine

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

1930

★ 4.5

Philosophical literature

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they could have no difficulty in exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety.

Civilization and Its Discontents · 1930

★ 4.5

I never think of the future—it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

1930

★ 3.8

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask · 1930

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

1930

★ 3.6

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask · 1930

★ 3.6

Fallacies, which do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

G.K. Chesterton

1930

★ 3.6

Essay · Political literature · Philosophical literature

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses · 1930

★ 3.6

Essay · Political literature · Philosophical literature

A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses · 1930

★ 3.6

Life is a horizontal fall.

1930

★ 3.5

In every house of marriage there's room for an interpreter.

1930

★ 3.5

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests has said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits to thought." The Greeks said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought."

The Greek Way · 1930

★ 3.5

Scientific literature

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

1930

★ 3.5

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, claptrap, and demagogy... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.

Robert Briffault

1930

★ 3.4

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion.

Last Poems · 1930

★ 2.7

Essay · Magazine

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Albert Einstein

1930

★ 1.9

Novel · Magazine · Detective fiction

That's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask · 1930

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

1930

★ 1.9

Philosophical literature

One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

1930

★ 1.9

We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear.

Narcissus and Goldmund · 1930

★ 1.9

Essay · Economic literature

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

John Maynard Keynes

1930

★ 1.9

Play · Comedy (play) · Comedy of manners · Comedy

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Private Lives · 1930

★ 1.9

We hear war called murder. It is not: it is suicide.

Ramsay MacDonald

1930

★ 1.9

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

1930

★ 1.9

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

1930

★ 1.9

Scientific literature

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

1930

★ 1.8

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

W. Somerset Maugham

Cakes and Ale · 1930

★ 1.8

Autobiography and memoir

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Winston Churchill

1930

★ 1.1

When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.

Narcissus and Goldmund · 1930

★ 1.0

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

James Weldon Johnson

1930

★ 1.0