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Top 20 topics
containing "nineteenth":
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| | Theodor Adorno |  | In the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a vegetable and it was already a dream. |
| | Theodor Adorno | | The walk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage of the feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. |
| | Isaiah Berlin | | Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow - despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century. |
| | Christopher Dawson | | Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples. |
| | Erich Fromm | | In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. |
| | John Kenneth Galbraith | | Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. |
| | Brad Holland | | In the nineteenth century the camera made a realist of the man on the street. Now the computer can make anybody a desktop Cubist. Technology may or may not be destiny, but I doubt that machines will replace art any more than wheels have replaced feet. |
| | Ellen Key | | The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. |
| | Rosabeth Moss Kanter | | The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved. |
| | Penelope Lively | | We're a few generations removed from the nineteenth century, the people who had to move to the towns. This runs in the blood. |
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