Philosophy has never got beyond this point. There are but two schools: one turns the world onto me; the other turns me onto the world; and the result is the same.


Letter to Elizabeth Cameron (13 May 1905), in Worthington C. Ford ed., Letters of Henry Adams, Volume 2: 1892–1918 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1938), p. 451

Henry Adams Quotes

Philosophy has never got beyond this point. There are but two schools: one turns the world onto me; the other turns me onto the world; and the result ...

Philosophy has never got beyond this point. There are but two schools: one turns the world onto me; the other turns me onto the world; and the result ...

Philosophy has never got beyond this point. There are but two schools: one turns the world onto me; the other turns me onto the world; and the result ...

Philosophy has never got beyond this point. There are but two schools: one turns the world onto me; the other turns me onto the world; and the result ...