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Said in the 1900s
“Self-knowledge — the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?”
Emil Cioran (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Time magazine (December 1957)
“...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The end of conduct is not the happiness and welfare of oneself, or of one's family, or one's town, or one's country, or even of one's race, but the welfare and happiness of all beings, including oneself, the welfare of the world, of the universe, including the generations to come as well as the beings of the present.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nine-tenths of the activities of a modern Government are harmful; therefore the worse they are performed, the better.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Problem of China (1922), Ch. XII: The Chinese Character
“He had always felt that they thought that in him they had a kindred spirit. That was true. Their great men were the men he admired; some of their greatest men were the men from whom he had drawn inspiration, notably Abraham Lincoln. The next day he was to start on a journey to see a country which he regarded as the great miracle of the West, where man had risen from the dead past to a new hope.”
David Lloyd George (1863–1945) first seen 1923 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech to the American Society in London at the Savoy Hotel, London, before his tour of the United States (28 September 1923), quoted in The Times (29 September 1923), p. 6
“It may be called the Master Passion—the hunger for Self-Approval.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Telephones are like women. No one really knows anything about them. One fine day, something goes wrong; you try to find out why, no good, you swear, you shake them up a bit and all is well.”
André Maurois (1885–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I didn't notice many Jewish names coming back from Vietnam on any of those lists; I don't know how the hell they avoid it. If you look at the Canadian-Swedish contingent, they were very disproportionately Jewish. The deserters”
Richard Nixon (1913–1994) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conversation with Mr. Colson, on tapes recorded February-March 1973; as quoted in "In Tapes, Nixon Rails About Jews and Blacks", by Adam Nagourney, The New York Times (December 10, 2010)
“Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?”
Philip K. Dick (1928–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where men are gathered together in great masses it inevitably results that they must work far more largely through combinations than where they live scattered and remote from one another... Under present-day conditions it is necessary to have corporations in the business world as it is to have organizations, unions, among wage workers.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.”
C. S. Lewis (1898–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On every side now the Socialist controversy grew, and I listened, read, and thought much, but said little. The inclusion of John Robertson in the staff of the Reformer brought a highly intellectual Socialist into closer touch with us, and slowly I found that the case for Socialism was intellectually complete and ethically beautiful.”
Annie Besant (1847–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“情况是在不断地变化，要使自己的思想适应新的情况，就得学习。”
毛泽东 (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.”
Anthony Burgess (1917–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.”
Che Guevara (1928–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Easy to See the Future", Natural History magazine (April 1975);
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the first things I had been taught as a child was never to believe a single word that was written in newspapers.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That proves it's not by Shaw, because all Shaw's characters are himself: mere puppets stuck up to spout Shaw.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dictatorship is like a giant beech tree—very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.”
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) first seen 1934 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broadcast from London (6 March 1934), quoted in This Torch of Freedom (1935), p. 21
“他现在下落了，掉下去了-你们不时讽刺；真相是：他降下去，降到你们这里！他过多的幸福成了自己的不幸，他过多的光明跟随你们的黑暗。”
弗里德里希·尼采 (1844–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote:zh, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[N]othing is more terrible than a bed; since it is always waiting to be a death-bed.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source