Ifs Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

9 Ifs quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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Amiel’s writings often probe the inner self with quiet depth. Across nine brief statements he explores the ‘if’ as a mental turning point, delivering a succinct, reflective snapshot.

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The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

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If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the…

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The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it…

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Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other…

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Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to…

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Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of…

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I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born…

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To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that…

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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

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Order is power.

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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.…

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Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling…

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from…

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Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

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The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the…

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The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory.

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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.

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Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful…

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