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Henry Brooks Adams fue un hombre de letras e historiador estadounidense.

Siendo parte de la élite de Boston y descendiente de dos presidentes, fue educado con cierta aversión por la política norteamericana de su tiempo. De joven fue corresponsal y editor de un periódico, exigió reformas sociales y políticas, pero se vio desilusionado con un mundo que él describía como desprovisto de principios.

Esa pérdida de fe, fue reflejada en su novela Democracy: An American Novel . Su estudio sobre la democracia de Estados Unidos, culminó en su History of the United States of America de nueve tomos , la cual recibió elogios inmediatos.

En Monte Saint-Michel y Chartres , describió la concepción del mundo medieval manifiesta en su arquitectura. The Education of Henry Adams , es su obra más conocida y una de las autobiografías más sobresalientes de la literatura occidental, donde plasma sus conflictos con las incertidumbres del siglo XX.

✵ 16. febrero 1838 – 27. marzo 1918   •   Otros nombres Henry Brooks Adams, 亨利·亞當斯
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Frases célebres de Henry Adams

“Un amigo en la vida es mucho. Dos son demasiado. Tres son imposibles.”

Henry Adams

Fuente: Moya Cabrera, Javier. La materia. Editorial Libros.com, 2016. ISBN 9788416616626.

“Un profesor trabaja para la eternidad: nunca puede decir dónde acaba su influencia.”

Henry Adams

Original: «A teacher affects eternity, he can never tell where his influence stops».
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.
Fuente: Egan, James. 3000 Astounding Quotes. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Lulu.com, 2015. ISBN 9781326400378. p. 38.

“Nada en la educación es tan sorprendente como la cantidad de ignorancia que acumula en forma de hechos inertes.”

Henry Adams

Original: «Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts».

“La política práctica consiste en ignorar los hechos.”

Henry Adams

Original: «Practical politics consists in ignoring facts».

“Las palabras son resbaladizas.”

Henry Adams libro The Education of Henry Adams

Original: «Words are slipeery».
Fuente: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations. ISBN 9780195168235. p. 362.
Fuente: The Education of Henry Adams.

“Filosofía: respuesta ininteligible a problemas insolubles.”

Henry Adams

Original: «Philosophy: Unintelligible answer to insoluble problems».

“En cuanto a América, es el fruto ideal de todas tus esperanzas y reformas juveniles. Todos son bastante decentes, respetables, domésticos, burgueses, de clase media y aburridos. No hay absolutamente nada que repeler excepto que es un aburrimiento.”

Henry Adams

Original: «As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that is a bore».

Henry Adams: Frases en inglés

“He too had played with anarchy; though not with socialism, which, to young men who nourished artistic emotions under the dome of the Pantheon, seemed hopelessly bourgeois, and lowest middle-class.”

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“Adams was content to read Darwin, especially his "Origin of Species" and his "Voyage of the Beagle." He was a Darwinist before the letter; a predestined follower of the tide; but he was hardly trained to follow Darwin's evidences.”

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“For a first visit to Chartres, choose some pleasant morning when the lights are soft, for one wants to be welcome, and the Cathedral has moods, at times severe. At best, the Beauce is a country none too gay.”

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Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)

“To feel the art of Mont Saint Michel and Chartres we have got to become pilgrims again.”

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“Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius; selection between them is the highest science; their mass is the highest educator. Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God.”

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“…in the Executive, Grant and Boutwell were varieties of the type — political specimens — pathetic in their helplessness to do anything with power when it came to them. They knew not how to amuse themselves; they could not conceive how other people were amused. Work, whiskey, and cards were life. The atmosphere of political Washington was theirs — or was supposed by the outside world to be in their control — and this was the reason why the outside world judged that Washington was fatal even for a young man of thirty-two, who had passed through the whole variety of temptations, in every capital of Europe, for a dozen years; who never played cards, and who loathed whiskey.”

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“Even the discord of war is a detail on which the Abbey refuses to insist. Not till two centuries afterwards did the Mount take on the modern expression of war as a discord in God's providence. Then, in the early years of the fifteenth century, Abbot Pierre le Roy plastered the gate of the Châtelet as you now see it, over the sunny thirteenth-century entrance called Belle Chaise which had treated mere military construction with a sort of quiet contempt. You will know what a Châtelet is when you meet another; it frowns in a spirit quite alien to the twelfth century; it jars on the religion of the place; it forebodes wars of religion; dissolution of society; loss of unity; the end of a world. Nothing is sadder than the catastrophe of gothic art, religion and hope.”

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“No one cared enough to criticise, except himself who soon began to suffer from reaching his own limits. He found that he could not be this — or that — or the other; always precisely the things he wanted to be. He had not wit or scope or force. Judges always ranked him beneath a rival, if he had any; and he believed the judges were right. His work seemed to him thin, commonplace, feeble. At times he felt his own weakness so fatally that he could not go on; when he had nothing to say, he could not say it, and he found that he had very little to say at best.”

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“From that time, the universe has steadily become more complex and less reducible to a central control. With as much obstinacy as though it were human, it has insisted on expanding its parts; with as much elusiveness as though it were feminine, it has evaded the attempt to impose on it a single will. Modern science, like modern art, tends, in practice, to drop the dogma of organic unity. Some of the mediaeval habit of mind survives, but even that is said to be yielding before the daily evidence of increasing and extending complexity. The fault, then, was not in man, if he no longer looked at science or art as an organic whole or as the expression of unity. Unity turned itself into complexity, multiplicity, variety, and even contradiction.”

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“A Church which embraced, with equal sympathy, and within a hundred years, the Virgin, Saint Bernard, William of Champeaux and the School of Saint Victor, Peter the Venerable, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Dominic, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Saint Bonaventure, was more liberal than any modern state can afford to be. Radical contradictions the State may perhaps tolerate, but never embrace or profess. Such elasticity long ago vanished from human thought.”

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“Boys never see a conclusion; only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything; but the first impulse given to the boy is apt to lead or drive him for the rest of his life into conclusion after conclusion that he never dreamed of reaching.”

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