Date: 1850
"The relation discovered, must be something remote from all the common tracks and sheep-walks made in the mind."
preview | full record— Smith, Sydney (1771-1845)
Date: 1851
"And so it happens that the person who reads a great deal—that is to say, almost the whole day, and recreates himself by spending the intervals in thoughtless diversion, gradually loses the ability to think for himself; just as a man who is always riding at last forgets how to walk."
preview | full record— Schopenhauer, Arthur (1788-1860)
Date: 1854
"Snipes and woodcocks also may afford rare sport; but I trust it would be nobler game to shoot one’s self."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: 1854
"Patriotism is a maggot in their heads."
preview | full record— Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
Date: August 6 and 20, 1859
"The jaded cart-horse of the commonplace bourgeois mind falters of course in confusion in front of the ditch separating substance from appearance, and cause from effect; but one should not ride carthorses if one intends to go coursing over the very rough ground of abstract reasoning."
preview | full record— Engels, Friedrich (1820-1895)
Date: February 14, 1860
"But, in England, it is some subaltern spokesman, some worn-out place-hunter, some anonymous nonentity of a so-called Cabinet, that, relying on the donkey power of the Parliamentary mind and the bewildering evaporations of an anonymous press, without making any noise, without incurring any danger...
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: 1867
"As the hart pants after fresh water, so pants his soul after money, the only wealth."
preview | full record— Marx, Karl (1818-1883)
Date: 1882
"I have given a name to my pain, and call it 'a dog,'--it is just as faithful, just as importunate and shameless, just as entertaining, just as wise, as any other dog--and I can domineer over it, and vent my bad humor on it, as others do with their dogs, servants, and wives."
preview | full record— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date: 1883-1885
"The body is a great intelligence, a multiplicity with one sense, a war and a peace, a herd and a herdsman."
preview | full record— Nietzsche, Friedrich (1844-1900)
Date: January, 1884
"Our mental life, like a bird's life, seems to be made of an alternation of flights and perchings."
preview | full record— James, William (1842-1910)