If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still. — 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
![“Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/242/henry-adams-1542_autobiography_since-rousseau-s-time-and-largely-thanks_1407086.jpg)
