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 Copy Share Image
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — 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
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
One may guess the why and wherefore of a tear and yet find it too subtle to give any account of. A… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share
Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share
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
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share
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
The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share
Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share
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