“Dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
“Hindoo wisdom long ago regarded the world as the dream of Brahma. Must we hold with Fichte that it is the individual… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Aphorism Copy Share Image
“Uniformity...creates a void, and Nature abhors a vacuum.” — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Nature Copy Share Image
“Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be… — Henri-Frederic Amiel Enough time Copy Share Image
These pages reproduce me very imperfectly, and there are many things in me of which I find no trace in them.I suppose… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel First place Copy Share Image
“Life is short. We don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So, be… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Life Copy Share Image
“In these moments of tête-à-tête with the infinite, how different life looks! How all that usually occupies and excites us becomes suddenly… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Different life Copy Share Image
“Feebleness of will brings about weakness of head, and the abyss, in spite of its horror, comes to fascinate us, as though… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Character Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction; he has a secret horror of… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Identity Copy Share Image
“Reality, the present, the irreparable, the necessary, repel and even terrify me. I have too much imagination, conscience, and penetration and not… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Life 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-Frédéric Amiel Illusion Copy Share Image
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be outraged by silence.” — Henri-Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“I begin to realize that my memory is a great catacomb, and that below my actual standing-ground there is layer after layer… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Consciousness Copy Share Image
“What is it which has always come between real life and me? What glass screen has, as it were, interposed itself between… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Life Copy Share Image
“Spite is anger which is afraid to show itself, it is an impotent fury conscious of its impotence.” — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Anger Copy Share Image
“Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the plowshare of self-examination, but… — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Copy Share Image
“Be swift to love and make haste to be kind. Gladden others’ hearts.” .” — Henri-Frederic Amiel Love Copy Share Image
“The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the men which it forms” — Henri-Frédéric Amiel Education Copy Share Image
