MagazineCome on down to my apartment-I want to show you some remarkably fine etchings I just bought.Dorothy ParkerThe New Yorker · 1931★ 5.2
NovelAlthough human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life…but what is that something?Antoine de Saint-Exupery1931★ 4.4
Short storyYou do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.Franz KafkaThe Great Wall of China · 1931★ 4.4
Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.George Jean Nathan1931★ 4.3
The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.Carl Jung1931★ 3.5
There is nothing impossible, therefore, in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable; there is infinite room for it on every side.George Santayana1931★ 3.5
Historical literatureEvery generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.Lewis Mumford1931★ 3.5
NovelPatriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.Richard AldingtonThe Colonel's Daughter · 1931★ 3.5
NovelOnly solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.Willa CatherShadows on the Rock · 1931★ 1.9
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.Logan Pearsall Smith1931★ 1.8
Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.Logan Pearsall Smith1931★ 1.8
SpeechThe condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.Learned Hand1931★ 1.8
Interview · MagazineBusiness is built by men who care-care enough to disagree, fight it out to a finish, get facts. When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.William Wrigley Jr.1931★ 1.7
EssayPossessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.Albert Einstein1931★ 1.1
SpeechConcern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; [..] concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.Albert Einstein1931★ 1.1
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