1890s

Explore 261 quotes from the 1890s

Sort

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

The Will to Believe

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

James, William. "The Will to Believe." Philosophical Club of Yale University. Apr. 1896, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

James, William. "The Will to Believe." William James: Essays and Lectures, edited by Richard Kamber. Routledge, 2016.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition—and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives: to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain.

Joseph Conrad

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. The Nigger of the "Narcissus": A Tale of the Forecastle. London: Heinemann, 1897, preface.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. "The Nigger of the '"Narcissus.'" The Secret Sharer and Other Stories. W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, preface.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world—the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness.

John Muir

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Form ever follows function.

Louis Henri Sullivan

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Sullivan, Louis Henri. "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered." Lippincott's Magazine, Mar. 1896.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing!

Camille Pissarro

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 1

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Pissarro, Camille. Letter to his son Lucien. 26 July 1893.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Pissarro, Camille. Quoted in Letters of the Great Artists: From Blake to Pollock, edited by Richard Friedenthal. Random House, 1963.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

Kate Chopin

The Awakening

Buy The Awakening at Amazon Buy The Awakening at Amazon

Read The Awakening at Project Gutenberg

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 19.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 19.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." Songs of Travel. Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 4.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "The Vagabond." The Collected Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Roger C. Lewis. Edinburgh University Press, 2019, st. 4.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.

A.E. Housman

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Housman, Alfred Edward. A Shropshire Lad. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., 1896, no. 62, I. 21.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Housman, Alfred Edward. "A Shropshire Lad." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 62, I. 21.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.

Henry Billings Brown

There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database.

Plessy v. Ferguson

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 2

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Brown, Henry Billings. United States, Supreme Court. Plessy v. Ferguson. United States Reports, vol. 163, 18 May 1896, pp. 537-564. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/163/537/.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Dies, all dies!
The grass it dies, but in vernal rain
Up it springs and it lives again;
Over and over, again and again
It lives, it dies and it lives again.

Herman Melville

Works

There are no other quotes from this source in the Bon Mots database.

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. "Pontoosuce." Works. Vol. 16, Constable, 1924, I. 71.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. "Pontoosuce." Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Penguin Classics, 2006, I. 71.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Genre

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898, ch. 1.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains—mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.

John Muir

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Medium

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

Citation text copied to clipboard.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Medium

Genre

Statement Type

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Original Citation

Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898.

Original citation text copied to clipboard.

Current Citation

Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Our National Parks. Dover Publications, 2019.

Current citation text copied to clipboard.

An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: "There is very little difference between one man and another; but what little there is, is very important." This distinction seems to me to go to the root of the matter.

William James

The Will to Believe

More information about this quote

Topic

Author

Source

Language

Time

Authentication Score 3

More information on Authentication Score coming soon.

Citation

James, William. "The Importance of Individuals." The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1897.

Citation text copied to clipboard.