“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.”
— Henry Adams
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“Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.”
— Henry Adams
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“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
— Henry Adams
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“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.”
— Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
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“The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.”
— Henry Adams
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“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
— Henry Adams
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“The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.”
— Henry Adams
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“Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.”
— Henry Adams
Author: Henry Adams
Category: science
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