Henry Adams Quotes About Study

• The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

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  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1577, Open Road Media

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• I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

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  Men  

  Henry Adams (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3: 1858-1892”, p.28, Harvard University Press

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• No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

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  The Education of Henry Adams Vis Interiae (p. 447)

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• Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

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  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.163, Booklassic

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• Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the higher forces. Fire taught him secrets that no other animal could learn; running water probably taught him even more, especially in his first lessons of mechanics; the animals helped to educate him, trusting themselves into his hands merely for the sake of their food, and carrying his burdens or supplying his clothing; the grasses and grains were academies of study.

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  Men  

  Henry Adams (2009). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.726, The Floating Press

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• If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

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  Henry Adams (2017). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.248, BookRix

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• Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

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  Henry Adams (1999). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.1920, OUP Oxford

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• Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

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  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.423, Booklassic

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• The proper study of mankind is woman.

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  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

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