Quote #42

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

More from Henry Adams

  1. No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
  2. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
  3. No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
  4. The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
  5. 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…
  6. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
  7. Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
  8. There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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