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
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.
struggle men years
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.
struggle men satisfaction-in-life
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.
fighting men soul-and-body
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.
friendship bears neighbor
Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
strength sleep devil
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.
war heart enemy
Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know
practice statistics mathematician
Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.