Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. — Henri Frederic Amiel Attitude Copy Share Image
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair. — Henri Frederic Amiel Ballast Copy Share Image
The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Able Copy Share Image
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything. — Henri Frederic Amiel Doubt Copy Share Image
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel Accomplice Copy Share Image
Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them — Henri Frederic Amiel Democracy Copy Share Image
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. — Henri Frederic Amiel Approved Copy Share Image
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.” — Henri Frédéric Amiel Inner life 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 Every man Copy Share Image
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from… — Henri Frederic Amiel Apology Copy Share Image
The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different… — Henri Frederic Amiel All things Copy Share Image
All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Darkness Copy Share Image
Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much… — Henri Frederic Amiel Details Copy Share Image
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 Blow Copy Share Image
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Asks 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 Consciousness Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish… — Henri Frederic Amiel Abandon Copy Share Image
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bottom Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Advantage 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 Believe Copy Share Image
Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Abyss Copy Share Image
Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an… — Henri Frederic Amiel Alterations Copy Share Image
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will… — Henri Frederic Amiel Able 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 All kinds 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 Air Copy Share Image
Order is a great person's need and their true well being. — Henri Frederic Amiel Great person Copy Share Image
“Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!” — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. — Henri Frederic Amiel Consumes Copy Share Image
Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded. — Henri Frederic Amiel Great men Copy Share Image
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. — Henri Frederic Amiel Dominant Copy Share Image
