Date: 1911
"The psychical is divided (to speak metaphorically and not metaphysically) into monads that have no windows and are in communication only through empathy."
preview | full record— Husserl, Edmund (1859-1938)
Date: 1911
"As for Mr. Woodhouse, whose most famous sentences hang like texts in frames on the four walls of our memories, he is, next to Don Quixote, perhaps the most perfect gentleman in fiction; and under outrageous provocation he remains so."
preview | full record— Bradley, A.C. (1851-1935)
Date: 1913
"But there was a twist in his brain which made his pictures of real life appear like scenes looked at through flawed glass."
preview | full record— Gosse, Edmund (1849-1928)
Date: 1914
"nd I know that just as the voice of Jesus was not heard, and is not heard, save here and there; just as the voice of Tolstoy is not heard, save here and there; and others great and small are lost in the great echoless desert of indifferentism, having produced little perceptible effect, so my voi...
preview | full record— de Cleyre, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Date: 1914
"I think with all his purity Emerson had within him the turbid stream of passion and desire; for all his hard-cut granite features he knew the instincts of the weakling and the slave; and for all his sweetness, he had the tiger and the jackal in his soul."
preview | full record— de Cleyre, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Date: 1916
"The demon of sexuality comes to our soul like a serpent."
preview | full record— Jung, Carl (1875-1961)
Date: 1916
"The demon of spirituality descends into our soul like a white bird."
preview | full record— Jung, Carl (1875-1961)
Date: 1918
"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1918
"Mr. Chesterton's brain swarms with ideas; I see no evidence that it thinks."
preview | full record— Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
Date: 1919
"My memories simply trooped the colour."
preview | full record— Cummings, Bruce Frederick [pseud. W. N. P. Barbellion] (1889-1919)