283 Quotes by Henry Adams

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

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

Intimates are predestined.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.