All Henry Adams Quotes
- Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself. Absorbing
- I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted… Acted
- We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality. Abstract
- The world is coming to an end in 1950. Coming
- It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. Beginning
- The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain… Care
- A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians. Definition
- The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women. Him
- The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the… All
- The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out… Commonplace
- History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough. Any
- The mind resorts to reason for want of training. Mind
- Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each… All
- I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women… Any
- I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his… Believe
- Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed… Become Every
- Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. Game
- You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout! Congress
- As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman. Been
- He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. Certain
- Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. Absolute
- By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the… Always Live
- Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs. Bear
- If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep. Devil
- At the utmost, the active-minded young man should ask of his teacher only mastery of his tools. The young man himself, the subject of education,… Acquired