Gertrude Stein - The nineteenth century was co...

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

Gertrude Stein

American Author

Born: Feb 3, 1874

Died: Jul 27, 1946

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Nineteenth, Nineteenth Century, Logic, Hopes, Cosmic, Had, Ideals, Terms, Discoveries, Lacking, Century, Aspirations

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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. Erich Fromm

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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. W. E. B. Du Bois

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Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties. Martin Filler

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The most influential utopian idea of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was socialism, which has failed everywhere. Under the banner of socialism, Stalin's U.S.S.R. and Mao's China gave us not utopias but ghastly anti-utopias. Steven Weinberg

Socialism Gave Nineteenth Ghastly Everywhere Failed Idea Most Influential Banner Which China Centuries Stalin Us Mao Twentieth Utopian

In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war that proved bloodier than any other conflict in American history, a war that would presage the slaughter of World War I's Western Front and the global carnage of the twentieth century. Drew Gilpin Faust

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it. Adolf Loos

Past Before Beginning Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Abandoned Point Renew Because Built Tradition Times Intend Just Century Present

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century. Alfred Marshall

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In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace. Amor Towles

Music Change Architecture Painting Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Evolving Pretty Seems Observable Retrospect Industry Were Arts Pace Century Novel

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