Henry Brooks Adams foi um historiador, jornalista e novelista estadunidense.Foi professor de História em Harvard, onde introduziu o sistema de seminários, escreveu a Monumental History of the United States during the Administration of Jefferson and Madison . Na sua obra Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres defende a tese de que a unidade da França no século XIII se ficou a dever ao culto da Virgem, presente em todos os aspectos da vida.
Em Letter to American Teachers of History pretende relacionar a História com as ciências e apresenta o progresso da Humanidade através de ciclos evolutivos. A obra Education of Henry Adams valeu-lhe o Prémio Pulitzer em 1919.
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“Um professor sempre afeta a eternidade. Ele nunca saberá onde sua influência termina.”
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The Education of Henry Adams - http://books.google.com/books?id=BO7Ye0b7mekC&pg=PA243 página 243, Por Henry Brooks Adams, Publicado por Forgotten Books ISBN 1606209361, 9781606209363
“Amizades nascem, não são feitas.”
Friends are born, not made
The Education of Henry Adams - Página 87, de Henry Brooks Adams, Publicado por Forgotten Books ISBN 1606209361, 9781606209363
“Um professor influi para a eternidade; nunca se pode dizer até onde vai sua influencia.”
Variante: Um professor afeta a eternidade; é impossível dizer até onde vai sua influência.
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.
The Education of Henry Adams - Página 252 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=BO7Ye0b7mekC&pg=PA252, de Henry Brooks Adams, Publicado por Forgotten Books ISBN 1606209361, 9781606209363
“O conhecimento da natureza humana é o princípio e o fim da educação política.”
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
The Education of Henry Adams - Página 146, de Henry Brooks Adams, Publicado por Forgotten Books ISBN 1606209361, 9781606209363
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts
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“A filosofia é composta de respostas incompreensíveis para questões insolúveis.”
philosophy, which consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems
The Education of Henry Adams - http://books.google.com/books?id=BO7Ye0b7mekC&pg=PA305 página 305, Por Henry Brooks Adams, Publicado por Forgotten Books ISBN 1606209361, 9781606209363
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”
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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Ch. 35 http://books.google.com/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Even+in+America+the+Indian+Summer+of+life+should+be+a+little+sunny+and+a+little+sad+like+the+season+and+infinite+in+wealth+and+depth+of+tone+but+never+hustled%22&pg=PA502#v=onepage.
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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
On a children's hospital, Ch. III
Esther: A Novel (1884)
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Madeleine Lee in Ch. VIII
Democracy: An American Novel (1880)
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The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
An early French name for the chesspiece known as the Queen was Fierge or Vierge, meaning "Virgin".
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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
Contexto: p>To religious mystics, whose scepticism concerned chiefly themselves and their own existence, Saint Thomas's Man seemed hardly worth herding, at so much expense and trouble, into a Church where he was not eager to go. True religion felt the nearness of God without caring to see the mechanism. Mystics like Saint Bernard, Saint Francis, Saint Bonaventure or Pascal had a right to make this objection, since they got into the Church, so to speak, by breaking through the windows; but society at large accepted and retains Saint Thomas's Man much as Saint Thomas delivered him to the government; a two-sided being, free or unfree, responsible or irresponsible, an energy or a victim of energy, moved by choice or moved by compulsion, as the interests of society seemed for the moment to need. Certainly Saint Thomas lavished no excess of liberty on the Man he created, but still he was more generous than the State has ever been. Saint Thomas asked little from Man, and gave much; even as much freedom of will as the State gave or now gives; he added immortality hereafter and eternal happiness under reasonable restraints; his God watched over man's temporal welfare far more anxiously than th State has ever done, and assigned him space in the Church which he can never have in the galleries of Parliament or Congress. [... ] No statute law ever did as much for Man, and no social reform ever will try to do it; yet Man bitterly complained that he had not his rights, and even in the Church is still complaining, because Saint Thomas set a limit, more or less vague, to what man was obstinate in calling his freedom of will.Thus Saint Thomas completed his work, keeping his converging lines clear and pure throughout, and bringing them together, unbroken, in the curves that gave unity to his plan. His sense of scale and proportion was that of the great architects of his age. One might go on studying it for a life-time.</p
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“Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.”
George Strong in Ch. VII
Esther: A Novel (1884)
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)
The Education of Henry Adams (1907)