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Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss
Philosopher
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There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Respect
#Self
#Humility
The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Life
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Sacrifice
#Law
#Passion
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Being
#Living
#Self
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#First
#Criticism
#Sympathy
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Self
#Soul
#Tears
#Emotion
#Symbol
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Will
#Old
#Moon
#Dying
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Words
#May
#Beginning
#Gratitude
#Completion
#Thankfulness
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Fire
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Man
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Life
#Man
#Regret
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Sacrifice
#Rest
#Salvation
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Man
#Religious
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Harmony
#Music
#Perfection
#Dream
#Heaven
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Thought
#Mountains
#Opium
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Soul
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Heart
#Man
#Intelligence
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Past
#Woman
#Affection
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Freedom
#First
#Health
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Teaching
#Writing
#Water
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Man
#Worth
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Grace
Order is power.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Power
#Order
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Time
#Life
#Love
#Journey
#Haste
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Truth
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Truth
#Materialism
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Science
#Society
#Faith
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Being
#Order
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Talent
#Genius
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Duty
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Unconscious
#Favorite
#Sin
#Apology
#Faults
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Life
#Art
#Authority
#Virtue
#Maxim
#Eloquence
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Self
#Humanity
#Survival
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Family
#Woman
#Destruction
#Destiny
#Salvation
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#People
#Old
#Age
#Silly
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#State
#Nationality
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Will
#Art
#Teaching
#Song
#Soul
#Key
#Music
#Interest
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Courage
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
True humility is contentment.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Humility
#Contentment
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#May
#Truth
#Silence
#Falsehood
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Hope
#Uncertainty
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Life
#Nothing
#Nature
#Waste
#Improvement
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Man
#Passion
#Force
#Possibility
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Liberty
#Difficulty
#Joy
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Pretty
#Women
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Work
#Light
#Talent
We only understand that which already within us.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Childhood
#Heaven
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Action
#Thought
#Faith
#Criticism
#Doubt
#Order
#Reflection
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Action
#Thought
#Unconscious
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Truth
#Error
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Talent
#Genius
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Spirit
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Action
#Will
#Nothing
#Thought
#Energy
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Quality
#Charm
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#People
#Will
#Nothing
#Cleverness
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Nothing
#Cleverness
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Life
#Common sense
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Life
#Experience
#Measure
#Common sense
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Destiny
#Wishes
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Life
#Influence
#Faith
#Profession
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Success
#Future
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss
Philosopher
#Spontaneity