Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. — Henri Frederic Amiel Attitude Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Ballast Copy Share Image
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel Analysis Copy Share Image
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. — Henri Frederic Amiel Doubt Copy Share Image
The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them — Henri Frederic Amiel Democracy Copy Share Image
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous. — Henri Frederic Amiel Distrust Copy Share Image
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Consciousness Copy Share Image
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Brutal Copy Share Image
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature… — Henri Frederic Amiel Breaths Copy Share Image
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Abyss Copy Share Image
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in… — Henri Frederic Amiel Calm Copy Share Image
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Biblical Copy Share Image
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life… — Henri Frederic Amiel Desire Copy Share Image
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Compulsion Copy Share Image
