Henry Adams
Quotations
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“The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.” -Henry Adams
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“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.” -Henry Adams
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“A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.” -Henry Adams
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“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.” -Henry Adams
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“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.” -Henry Adams
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“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.” -Henry Adams
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“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.” -Henry Adams
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“Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” -Henry Adams
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“Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.” -Henry Adams
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“Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.” -Henry Adams
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“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.” -Henry Adams
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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” -Henry Adams
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“I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.” -Henry Adams
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“One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.” -Henry Adams
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“No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.” -Henry Adams
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“All experience is an arch, to build upon.” -Henry Adams
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“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.” -Henry Adams
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“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.” -Henry Adams
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. – Henry Adams
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