1958 · Skopia

Showing 40 quotes from 1958

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

1958

★ 8.3

Government action is not the whole answer to the present crisis, but it is an important partial answer. Morals cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. The law cannot make an employer love me, but it can keep him from refusing to hire me because of the color of my skin.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

1958

★ 6.2

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

The Poetics of Space · 1958

★ 5.9

Lecture

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

Werner Heisenberg

1958

★ 5.3

Speech

It is useful to distinguish among four factors which give importance, urgency, and inevitability to the advancement of space technology. The first of these factors is the compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before.

James R. Killian

1958

★ 5.0

Sociology · Economic literature

It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society · 1958

★ 4.4

Novel

Pretty girls make graves.

Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums · 1958

★ 3.8

Novel

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything.

Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums · 1958

★ 3.8

Poem

How long does a man spend dying?

Pablo Neruda

1958

★ 3.8

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.

Frank Lloyd Wright

1958

★ 3.7

Film · Film noir · Crime drama (film) · Crime drama

A policeman's job is only easy in a police state. That's the whole point, Captain. Who's the boss, the cop or the law?

Mike Vargas

Touch of Evil · 1958

★ 3.7

Novel

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 3.6

Psychological literature

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

1958

★ 3.6

Sociology · Economic literature

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society · 1958

★ 3.6

Letter

If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck

1958

★ 3.6

The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get. Without this-with work which you despise, which bores you, and which the world does not need-this life is hell.

W.E.B. Du Bois

1958

★ 3.6

Speech · Philosophical literature · Political literature

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

Isaiah Berlin

Two Concepts of Liberty · 1958

★ 3.6

Film · Film noir · Psychological thriller (film) · Psychological thriller

The law has little to say on the subject of things left undone.

Coroner

Vertigo · 1958

★ 3.6

Film · Film noir · Psychological thriller (film) · Psychological thriller

To wander separately? But, only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.

Madeleine Elster

Vertigo · 1958

★ 3.6

Essay · Newspaper · Economic literature

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The Economist · 1958

★ 3.5

A man without faith is like a fish without a bicycle.

Charles S. Harris

1958

★ 3.5

Essay · Newspaper · Economic literature

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The Economist · 1958

★ 3.5

Travel writing

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post

1958

★ 3.5

Novel

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

Peter De Vries

The Mackerel Plaza · 1958

★ 3.5

The identity crisis... Occurs in that period of the life cycle when each of you must forge for himself some central perspective and direction, some working unity, out of the effective remnants of his childhood and the hopes of his anticipated adulthood.

Erik Erikson

1958

★ 3.4

Letter

Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 2.7

Film · Film noir · Crime drama (film) · Crime drama

Your future's all used up.

Tanya

Touch of Evil · 1958

★ 2.1

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Hannah Arendt

The Human Condition · 1958

★ 2.0

Film · Film noir · Crime drama (film) · Crime drama

It's a dirty job, enforcing the law; but, it's what we're supposed to be doing, isn't it?

Mike Vargas

Touch of Evil · 1958

★ 2.0

Newspaper

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.

Harry Truman

Observer · 1958

★ 1.9

Novel

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 1.9

Psychological literature

While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way.

Carl Jung

1958

★ 1.9

Sociology · Economic literature

These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society · 1958

★ 1.9

Novel

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Lawrence Durrell

Mountolive · 1958

★ 1.9

Lecture

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals... This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution.

Isaiah Berlin

1958

★ 1.9

Newspaper

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides!

Artur Schnabel

1958

★ 1.8

Newspaper

The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

J. William Fulbright

Observer · 1958

★ 1.8

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go-and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Wernher von Braun

1958

★ 1.8

Letter

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.

Rachel Carson

1958

★ 1.2

Biography

Politics grease the wheels of business.

R.H. Tawney

1958

★ 1.0