Henry Adams Quotes about Philosophy

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Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Henry Adams

Philosophy, Order, Medicine

Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.389, Booklassic

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

Henry Adams

Running, Art, Philosophy

Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.15, Booklassic

The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.

Henry Adams

Philosophy, Church, Answers

Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing between flashes of intense perception. ... Rigidly denying himself the amusement of philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems, and liked to wander past them in a courteous temper, even bowing to them distantly as though recognizing their existence, while doubting their respectibility.

Henry Adams

Philosophy, Knowledge, Science