283 Quotes by Henry Adams

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman – Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

An artist’s business is only to see.

You can’t use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

The world grew cheap, as worlds must.

The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that’s a downer is a great way to find out about someone.

The world can absorb only doses of truth,” he said; “too much would kill it.” One sought education in order to adjust the dose.

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God’s will, and Fate and Evolution – let there be God!

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim’s sympathies.

To her mind the Senate was a place where people went to recite speeches, and she naively assumed that the speeches were useful and had a purpose, but as they did not interest her she never went again. This is a very common conception of Congress; many Congressmen share it.