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
power political president
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
doctrine physics accepting
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
passion men young
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
political upset progress
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
suicide science race
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
men graves edges
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
art mean literature
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.
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.