“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling:… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. — William Weld Copy Share Image
“Up until the nineteenth century, the vast majority of military revolutions were the product of organisational rather than technological changes.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the… — Emily Matchar Copy Share Image
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Heroes have gone out; quacks have come in; the reign of quacks has not ended with the nineteenth century. The sceptre is… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence,… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. “All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“The British ruled nineteenth-century India with unshakeable self-confidence, buttressed by protocol, alcohol and a lot of gall.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the… — Edward Wilmot Blyden Copy Share Image
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Fatal illness has always been viewed as a test of moral character, but in the nineteenth century there is a great reluctance… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes… — John Moody Copy Share Image
“She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on… — Beverly Jenkins Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century,” he observed, “Jules Verne wrote Round the World in Eighty Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
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