Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident. — Henri Frederic Amiel Accidents 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
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
Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Conscious Copy Share Image
A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to… — Henri Frederic Amiel Action Copy Share Image
Order is a great person's need and their true well being. — Henri Frederic Amiel Great person Copy Share Image
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. — Henri Frederic Amiel Heart Copy Share Image
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air… — Henri Frederic Amiel Air Copy Share Image
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel Desire Copy Share Image
Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Attention Copy Share Image
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Able Copy Share Image
Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Dependence Copy Share Image
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE — Henri Frederic Amiel Absence 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
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Character Copy Share Image
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. — Henri Frederic Amiel Creatures Copy Share Image
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which… — Henri Frederic Amiel Ideas Copy Share Image
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain… — Henri Frederic Amiel Adversity Copy Share Image
Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded. — Henri Frederic Amiel Great men Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Anger Copy Share Image
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Existence Copy Share Image
A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. — Henri Frederic Amiel Educational Copy Share Image
