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• Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
• philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
• Mathematicians practice absolute freedom. -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)
• A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence ends.
  -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) "The Education of Henry Adams" (1907)...
• Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
  -- Henry Brooks Adam...
• Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
  -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918) "The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma...
• Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
  -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918)...
• No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
  -- Henry Brooks Adams (1838-1918), "The Education of Henry Adams", 1907...
• 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....