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
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Conditions Copy Share Image
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. — Henri Frederic Amiel Habit 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
The masses are the material of democracy, but its form-that is to say, the laws which express the general reason, justice, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Democracy Copy Share Image
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance… — Henri Frederic Amiel Aspire Copy Share Image
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Balls Copy Share Image
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.” — Henri Frédéric Amiel Inner life Copy Share Image
Civilization is first of all a moral thing. Without truth, respect for duty, love of neighbor, and virtue, everything is destroyed. The… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bases Copy Share Image
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Clever Copy Share Image
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object… — Henri Frederic Amiel Affection Copy Share Image
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage. — Henri Frederic Amiel Anticipation 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
Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them. — Henri Frederic Amiel Achieve Copy Share Image
The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things. — Henri Frederic Amiel Elements Copy Share Image
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel Common 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
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
