Quote by Henry Adams
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. - Henry Adams

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. – Henry Adams

Other quotes by Henry Adams

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. – Henry Adams

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Society
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Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. – Henry Adams

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Politics
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Philosophy
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What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. – George Berkeley

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Philosophy

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Philosophy

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. – Woody Allen

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Philosophy

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. – Woody Allen

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Philosophy

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Friends depart, and memory takes them
To her caverns, pure and deep. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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Memory

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. – Thomas Hardy

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Hope

Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word. – Elizabeth I

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Necessity

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel. – Scott Adams

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Future