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Henry Brooks Adams

1838-1918. American historian and novelist.

1. "Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."

source: (about philosophy)

categories: Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem

2. "Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world."

categories: Human -:- Science and Technology

3. "Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence."

categories: God and Religion -:- Oration and Silence

4. "Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

categories: Politics and Diplomacy

5. "Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

source: "The Education of Henry Adams"

categories: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness

6. "Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

source: "Education of Henry Adams"

categories: Politics and Diplomacy

7. "One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it."

source: "The Education of Henry Adams"

categories: Truth and Falsity

8. "One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible."

categories: Friendship and Hostility

9. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

source: "The Education of Henry Adams"

categories: Knowledge, Ignorance -:- Education

10. "My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don’t in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to."

categories: Science and Technology

11. "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."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Optimism and Hope

12. "Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."

source: "The Education of Henry Adams"

categories: Human -:- Nature and Animals

13. "Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit."

source: "The Education of Henry Adams"

categories: Various

14. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

categories: Education


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