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Quotes from Mont Saint Michel and Chartres — Henry Adams

1838–1918 United States

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Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)

Even theologians — even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, — even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself — did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.