3 December 2020 Henry Adams 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams 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.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.
