Idealism Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to descry in others that transfigured spark…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that…

— Jean Lorrain

“If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] ”

— Estelle Jussim

“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— Charles Stross

“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“This Second Century appeals to me because it was the last century, for a very long period of time, in which men could think…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning…

— Victor Hugo

“What now strikes as remarkable about the new moneyed class of the nineteenth century is their complete irresponsibility;they see everything in terms of individual…

— George Orwell

“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and modest industries…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will…

— Victor Hugo

“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when…

— Leo Tolstoy