All Henry Adams Quotes
- The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems. Inspirational
- My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least… Belief
- Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is… Absence
- No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a… Extinction
- Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Ago
- Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this… Cent
- As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single… Anyone
- An artist's business is only to see. Artist
- There have been times when the church seemed afraid, but she is no longer. Analyze, dissect, use your microscope or your spectrum till the last… Afraid
- All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction… All
- Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice,… Attract
- Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical,… Best
- Man loves most that which is his own. Inspirational
- The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which… Arbitrary
- Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they… Best
- No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money. Cost
- Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance… Advance
- The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and… All
- The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and… Answers
- Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility… Academies
- As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness… Affected
- Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage… Advantage
- Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point. Any
- From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were… Accustomed
- Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less. Blind