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His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

Henry Adams
Family, Brother, Variation
Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.10, Booklassic

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Henry Adams
Teaching, Ignorance, Study
Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1577, Open Road Media

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

Henry Adams
Tangled, May, Enough
Henry Adams (2008). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.277, Cosimo, Inc.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

Henry Adams
Political, Politics, Occasional

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.

Henry Adams
Women, Moral, Settling
'The Education of Henry Adams' (1907) ch. 6

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Henry Adams
Doctrine, Physics, Accepting
Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.94, Sheba Blake Publishing

Intimates are predestined.

Henry Adams
Predestined
Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.202, Booklassic

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Henry Adams
Practice, Statistics, Mathematician

All State education is a sort of dynamo machine for polarizing the popular mind; for turning and holding its lines of force in the direction supposed to be most effective for State purposes.

Henry Adams
Education, Mind, Purpose
Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.78, Booklassic

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

Henry Adams
Education, Choices, Mind
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 21 (1907)

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

Henry Adams
Believe, Silence, Respectable
Henry Adams (1938). “Letters of Henry Adams ...: 1892-1918”, New York, Houghton

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Henry Adams
History, Historical, Use
"Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams".

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Henry Adams
Art, Language, American Language
1907 The Education of Henry Adams, ch.25,'The Dynamo and the Virgin'.

Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.

Henry Adams
Mean, Men, Cities
Henry Adams (2005). “Democracy an American Novel”, p.35, 1st World Publishing

[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power; yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

Henry Adams
Art, Paris, World

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