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
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them. — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
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
A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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 Copy Share Image
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or… — 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
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
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
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. — 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
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the… — 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 Copy Share Image
Man is a willful and covetous animal, who makes use of his intellect to satisfy his inclinations, but who cares nothing for… — 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
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
