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 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 Copy Share Image
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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 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
If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals. — 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 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
There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel 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 with us.… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. — 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 by the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
