Henri Frederic Amiel

(1821–1881) Poet

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Henri Frederic Amiel’s reflections weave together philosophy and personal insight, inviting readers to pause and consider life’s subtleties. With more than two hundred quotes, his nuanced perspective shines through each line.

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Henri Frederic Amiel was a poet.

Quick Facts About Henri Frederic Amiel

Born: September 27, 1821
Died: May 11, 1881
Profession: Poet

About Henri Frederic Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel

True humility is contentment.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Contentment

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Life alone can rekindle life.

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Chaos

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Analysis kills spontaneity.

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Analysis

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The unfinished is nothing.

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Quitting

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Order is power.

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Order

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To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.

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Art

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“It is by teaching that we teach ourselves.”

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Education

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Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

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Faith

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Hope is only the love of life.

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Hope

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Joy is the vital air of the soul.

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Air

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About Jesus we must believe no one but himself.

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Believe

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Society rests upon conscience, not upon science.

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Accounts

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The best path through life is the highway.

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Highway

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

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Adored

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

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Earth

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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

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Materialism

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Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.

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Blessed

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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

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Communication

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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

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Great souls

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In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

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Christian

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True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

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Existence

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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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Achieve

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Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an…

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Art

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Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,…

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Feminism

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Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive…

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Critical

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It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history,…

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Astronomy

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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

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Compassion

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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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Conscious

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Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

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Convenient

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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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Age

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The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures…

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Ability

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I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself…

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Absolutes

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What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the…

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Birth

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“He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions –…

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Faith

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It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so…

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Consideration

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Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering,…

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Death

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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself,…

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Clear

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We only understand that which already within us.

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Learning

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Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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Attitude

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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

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Cross

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Henri Frederic Amiel by topic

Life (42) Men (34) Love (30) Inspirational (25) Religion (18) Soul (17) May (17) Truth (15) Time (13) Self (13) Faith (13) Nature (12) Intelligence (11) Giving (11) Order (10) Philosophy of Mind (9) Peace (9) Mind (9) Liberty (9) Ifs (9) Heart (9) Genius (9) Freedom (9) Art (9) Psychology (8)