56 ordspråk av Henry Brooks Adams
Henry Brooks Adams
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
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One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible.
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Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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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.
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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
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin
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The proper study of mankind is woman.
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