Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident. — Henri Frederic Amiel Accident Copy Share Image
In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians. — Henri Frederic Amiel Christian Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. — Henri Frederic Amiel Great souls Copy Share Image
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Communication Copy Share Image
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel Action Copy Share Image
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. — Henri Frederic Amiel Being Copy Share Image
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE — Henri Frederic Amiel Absence Copy Share Image
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Intelligence Copy Share Image
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel Freedom Copy Share Image
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. — Henri Frederic Amiel Habit Copy Share Image
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. — Henri Frederic Amiel Acceptance Copy Share Image
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel Animal Copy Share Image
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. — Henri Frederic Amiel Earth Copy Share Image
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. — Henri Frederic Amiel Humility Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. — Henri Frederic Amiel Age Copy Share Image
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools. — Henri Frederic Amiel 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 Art Copy Share Image
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Compassion Copy Share Image
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Astronomy Copy Share Image
Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Feminism Copy Share Image
Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel Ambition Copy Share Image
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
