1883

Explore 25 quotes from the year 1883

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Topic

Poetry

Author

Vincent Van Gogh

Source

Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Medium

Letter

Language

Dutch

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. 18 Mar. 1883.

Current Citation

Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Émile Zola

The Ladies' Paradise

Originally from Emile Zola's book, but quoted in letter from Van Gogh.

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Topic

Passion

Speaker

Octave Mouret

Author

Émile Zola

Source

The Ladies' Paradise

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Zola, Émile. "Au Bonheur de Dames [The Ladies' Paradise]." Gil Blas, 17 Dec. 1882 - 1 Mar. 1883.

Current Citation

Zola, Émile. The Ladies' Paradise. Oxford University Press, 2008.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

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Topic

Epistemology Knowledge Numbers Mathematics

Speaker

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Thomson, William. "Electrical Units of Measurement." 3 May 1883, Institute of Civil Engineers, London, England, UK. Lecture.

A man who entertains in his mind any political doctrine, except as a means of improving the condition of his fellows, I regard as a political intriguer, a charlatan, and a conjuror.

Anthony Trollope

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Topic

Political ideology Politics

Author

Anthony Trollope

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1883, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. "An Autobiography." An Autobiography and Other Writings, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 16.

The Forgotten Man... Delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and the school... But he is the only one for whom there is no provision in the great scramble and the big divide. Such is the Forgotten Man. He works, he votes, generally he prays-but his chief business in life is to pay... Who and where is the Forgotten Man in this case, who will have to pay for it all?

William Graham Sumner

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Topic

The forgotten man Middle class

Speaker

William Graham Sumner

Source

The Forgotten Man

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sumner, William Graham. "The Forgotten Man." 30 Jan. 1883, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA. Lecture.