The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own.… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly,… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“One had heard and read a great deal about death, and even seen a little of it, and knew by heart the thousand commonplaces… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
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