Philosophy of Mind Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

9 Philosophy of Mind quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

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Henri Frederic Amiel’s nine musings explore the inner landscape of thought with a measured, reflective tone. This modest set offers a clear window into his approach to the mind’s subtle currents.

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Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be…

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything…

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For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

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Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

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Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives…

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Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of…

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I can find no words for what I feel. My consciousness is withdrawn into itself; I hear my heart beating, and my…

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Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is…

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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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