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No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams
Truth, Mean, Men
The Education of Henry Adams ch. 31 (1907)

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Henry Adams
Truth, Wind, History
Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.723, The Floating Press

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

Henry Adams
Truth, Tails, Immortality
Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.129, Sheba Blake Publishing

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

Henry Adams
Truth, Mind, Would Be
Henry Adams (2015). “Esther”, p.128, Sheba Blake Publishing

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