7 quotes
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
One friend in a life time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
No honest historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should be merely a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
No sand-blast of science had yet skimmed off the epidermis of history, thought, and feeling.
The Education of Henry Adams (1918)
Philosophy … consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.
The Education of Henry Adams (1918)