Quote #38

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

More from Henry Adams

  1. It is impossible to underrate human intelligence- beginning with one's own.
  2. No historian can take part with- or against- the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fa…
  3. 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.
  4. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
  5. Henry James chews more than he bites off.
  6. No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
  7. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
  8. Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

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