1924

Explore 20 quotes from the year 1924

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

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Topic

The future The long run Economic theory Economics Death

Author

John Maynard Keynes

Source

A Tract on Monetary Reform

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. A Tract on Monetary Reform. MacMillan and Co., 1924, p. 80.

Current Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. "A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century beings it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Topic

Nature of time

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

The Magic Mountain

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 5.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Topic

Society and the individual Man as social animal

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

The Magic Mountain

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 2.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

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Topic

Lost love Getting over someone Broken heart Love

Author

Pablo Neruda

Source

Tonight I Can Write (Puedo Escribir Los Versos) Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Medium

Love poem Poem

Language

Spanish

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Puedo Escribir [Tonight I Can Write]." Veinte poemas de amor y una cancion desesperada [Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair]. 1924.

Current Citation

Neruda, Pablo. "Tonight I Can Write." Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair, translated by W. S. Merwin. Penguin Classics, 2006.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Saki

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Topic

White lies

Author

Saki

Source

Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Square Egg. John Lane, 1924.

Current Citation

Saki. "Clovis on the Alleged Romance of Business." The Complete Saki. Penguin Books, 1998.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Nature of time Time

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

The Magic Mountain

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 7.

And waiting means hurrying on ahead, it means regarding time and the present moment not as a boon, but an obstruction; it means making their actual content null and void, by mentally overleaping them. Waiting we say is long. We might just as well-or more accurately-say it is short, since it consumes whole spaces of time without our living them or making any use of them as such.

Thomas Mann

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Topic

Waiting Living in the present

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

The Magic Mountain

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 5.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

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Topic

Advertising and marketing

Author

Stephen Leacock

Source

Garden of Folly

Medium

Essay

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Leacock, Stephen. Garden of Folly. S. B. Gundy/Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924, ch. 4.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

R.G. Collingwood

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Topic

Freedom Dream job Vocation Work

Author

R.G. Collingwood

Source

Speculum Mentis

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Collingwood, Robin George. Speculum Mentis; or The Map of Knowledge. Clarendon Press, 1924, prologue.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

John B. Watson

Behaviorism

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Topic

Blank slate

Author

John B. Watson

Source

Behaviorism

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Watson, John B. Behaviorism. The People's Institute Publishing Company, 1924, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Watson, John B. Behaviorism. Routledge, 2017, ch. 5.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

Agatha Christie

The Kidnapped Prime Minister

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Topic

Logic

Author

Agatha Christie

Source

The Kidnapped Prime Minister Poirot Investigates

Medium

Short story

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Christie, Agatha. "The Kidnapped Prime Minister." Poirot Investigates. The Bodley Head, 1924.

The State is an instrument in the hands of the ruling class, used to break the resistance of the adversaries of that class.

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Topic

Class conflict Political power Government

Speaker

Joseph Stalin

Source

Foundations of Leninism

Medium

Lecture

Language

Russian

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stalin, Joseph. The Foundations of Leninism. International Publishers, 1970, ch. 4, sect. 2. Originally a lecture called "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Foundations of Leninism lecture series. 1924, Sverdlov University, Moscow, Russia.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers

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Topic

Misfortunes of others

Author

Will Rogers

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Rogers, Will. "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince." The Illiterate Digest. Albert & Charles Boni, 1924.

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Louis Brandeis

Jay Burns Baking Co. vs. Bryan

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Topic

Reason

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

Jay Burns Baking Co. vs. Bryan

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Dissenting opinion Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan. United States Reports, vol. 264, 14 Apr. 1924, pp. 517-534. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/264/504/.

Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

Leon Trotsky

Literature and Revolution

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Topic

Effects of art Art

Author

Leon Trotsky

Source

Literature and Revolution

Genre

Political literature

Language

Russian

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Trotsky, Leon. Литература и революция [Literature and Revolution]. Soviet Government, 1924.

Current Citation

Trotsky, Leon. Literature and Revolution, edited by William Keach. Haymarket Books, 2005.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Topic

Death

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

The Magic Mountain

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 6.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated until people get tired of hearing it.

Stanley Baldwin

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Topic

Platitudes and cliches Truth

Speaker

Stanley Baldwin

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Baldwin, Stanley. Speech in the House of Commons. House of Commons meeting. 29 May 1924. London, England, UK.

For time is the medium of narration, as it is the medium of life. Both are inextricably bound up with it, as inextricably as are bodies in space. Similarly, time is the medium of music; music divides, measures, articulates time, and can shorten it, yet enhance its value, both at once.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Topic

Time Music

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

The Magic Mountain

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 7.

We come out of the dark and go into the dark again, and in between lie the experiences of our life. But the beginning and end, birth and death, we do not experience; they have no subjective character, they fall entirely in the category of objective events, and that's that.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Topic

The human condition Life and death

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

The Magic Mountain

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 6.

A long line of cases shows that it is not merely of some importance, but is of fundamental importance that justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done.

Gordon Hewart

Rex v. Sussex Justices

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Topic

Fair trial Impartiality Justice Legal theory Law

Author

Gordon Hewart

Source

Rex v. Sussex Justices

Medium

Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hewart, Gordon, CJ. The United Kingdom, The King's Bench Division. Rex v Sussex Justices, ex parte McCarthy. 9 Nov. 1923. ([1924] 1 KB 256, [1923] All ER Rep 233].