Henry Adams
Henry Adams
Henry Brooks Adamswas an American historian and member of the Adams political family, being descended from two U.S. Presidents...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 February 1838
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
strong reality men
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
truth mean men
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
moon squares liberty
[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the schoolboy s=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler and Newton could take liberties with the sun and moon, an obscure person ... could take liberties with Congress, and venture to multiply its attraction into the square of its time. He had only to find a value, even infinitesimal, for its attraction.
effort unity energy
Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.
water mind calm
Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
truth tails immortality
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
impossible humans human-intelligence
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
training mind want
The mind resorts to reason for want of training.
honesty history trying
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 to falsify his facts.
history definitions want
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
technology world ends
The world is coming to an end in 1950.
teaching ignorance study
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
political use sticks
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
games political
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.