Nineteenth century Quotes · Page 3

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

— Thomas Szasz

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost…

— Peter C Bunnell

“Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.”

— Fred Whitehead

“The Nineteenth Century And After Though the great song return no more There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of…

— W.B. Yeats

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories…

— Satyajit Ray

What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases…

— Northrop Frye

“Japan, newly emerging on the world scene in the late nineteenth century, sought its science and engineering in Scotland.”

— Thomas Sowell

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and…

— Kenneth Clark

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all…

— Virchand Gandhi

The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first…

— Bryan Stevenson

You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is…

— Peter Thiel

The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him…

— David Riesman

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more…

— A. J. P. Taylor

Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean,…

— Daryl Hall

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they…

— Pankaj Mishra

Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It…

— Otto Lilienthal

I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive;…

— G.K. Chesterton

I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care…

— Kelley Armstrong

The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook…

— Vladimir Lenin

“T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: “When…

— Alan Jacobs

Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark…

— Lahiri Mahasaya

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see…

— Tim Gunn

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect…

— Edward Thorndike

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

— George Bernard Shaw

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

— Julian Barnes

“Launching a nice little war to divert national attention was a gambit no less appealing to nineteenth-century politicians than it is to…

— Jon Krakauer

“Historians estimate that up to half of nineteenth-century city residents were either boarding or maintaining a boardinghouse.2 Single”

— Bella DePaulo

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism…

— Albion Woodbury Small

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

— Paul Tillich

“It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.”

— Robert Hass

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

— Patricia Piccinini

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never…

— James A. Michener

In the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and…

— John Henrik Clarke

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

— Lukas Foss

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in…

— Michael Martin Hammer

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as…

— Colin Wilson