"All experience is an arch, to build upon." — Henry Adams
"All experience is an arch, to build upon."
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158 Quotes by Henry Adams
Henry Adams has 158 quotes on this site.
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Friends are born, not made.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in…
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
— Aristophanes
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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