Henry Adams on Hope
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Henry Adams, catalogued under hope, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Henry Adams, entry #51254: "In this atmosphere of charity, where all faiths were alike and all professions joined hands, the church and the world became one."
Attributed to Henry Adams, entry #131431: "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
7 Quotes by Henry Adams on Hope
"In this atmosphere of charity, where all faiths were alike and all professions joined hands, the church and the world became one."
"No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself."
"Some people are made with faith. I am made without it."
"One sees instantly that neither Francis of Assisi nor Bacon of Verulam could have hoped for peace with the Schools; twelfth-century ecstasy felt the futility of mere rhetoric quite as keenly as seventeenth-century scepticism was to feel it."
"...ignorant of all that man had ever thought or hoped, their minds burst open like flowers at the sunlight of a suggestion. They were quick to respond; plastic to a mould; and incapable of fatigue. Their faith in education was so full of pathos that one dared not ask them what they thought they could do with education when they got it."
"...the outpourings of Elisée Reclus were ideals of the French ouvrier, diluted with absinthe, resulting in a bourgeois dream of order and inertia. Neither made a pretence of anarchy except as a momentary stage towards order and unity. Neither of them had formed any other conception of the universe than what they had inherited from the priestly class to which their minds obviously belonged. With them, as with the socialist, communist, or collectivist, the mind that followed nature had no relation."
"As for myself, if I could have removed my doubts by so simple a step as that of becoming an atheist, I should have done it, no matter what scandal or punishment had followed. I studied the subject thoroughly, and found that for one doubt removed, another was raised, only to reach at last a result more inconceivable than that reached by the church, and infinitely more hopeless besides. What do you gain by getting rid of one incomprehensible only to put a greater one in its place, and throw away your only hope besides? The atheists offer no sort of bargain for one's soul. Their scheme is all loss and no gain. At last both they and I come back to a confession of ignorance; the only difference between us is that my ignorance is joined with a faith and hope."