Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. — Henri Frederic Amiel Atheism Copy Share Image
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past — Henri Frederic Amiel Inspirational Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Beauty Copy Share Image
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God. — Henri Frederic Amiel Balance Copy Share Image
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we… — Henri Frederic Amiel Education Copy Share Image
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from… — Henri Frederic Amiel Apology Copy Share Image
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey… — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Darkness Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bitterness Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Advantage Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Alive Copy Share Image
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel Inspirational Copy Share Image
