Frases de Henry Adams
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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

“Even 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.”

Henry Adams libro The Education of Henry Adams

Ch. 35 http://books.google.com/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&amp;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&amp;pg=PA502#v=onepage. <br class="br">The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

“I have got so far as to lose the distinction between right and wrong. Isn't that the first step in politics?”

Henry Adams libro Democracy: An American Novel

Madeleine Lee in Ch. VIII
Democracy: An American Novel (1880)

“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.”

Henry Adams

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

“Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less.”

Henry Adams

George Strong in Ch. VII
Esther: A Novel (1884)

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