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 Accounts Copy Share Image
To know where one is going and what one wishes - this is order ... to organize one's life to distribute one's… — Henri Frederic Amiel Knows Copy Share Image
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities… — Henri Frederic Amiel Attributes Copy Share Image
Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel Inspirational Copy Share Image
The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. — Henri Frederic Amiel Candidates 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 Chained 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 Completion Copy Share Image
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel Life 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 Abyss 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 Accomplices Copy Share Image
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. — Henri Frederic Amiel Sacrifice Copy Share Image
The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Alchemy Copy Share Image
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health. — Henri Frederic Amiel Believe Copy Share Image
Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near… — Henri Frederic Amiel Conquer Copy Share Image
Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Intelligence Copy Share Image
Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity… — Henri Frederic Amiel Able Copy Share Image
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Democracy Copy Share Image
Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself. — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Beauty Copy Share Image
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with… — Henri Frederic Amiel Believe 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 Critical Copy Share Image
Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee. — Henri Frederic Amiel Inspirational Copy Share Image
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven. — Henri Frederic Amiel Dreams Copy Share Image
