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
There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel Accept Copy Share Image
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Blessed Copy Share Image
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel Materialism Copy Share Image
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
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Existence Copy Share Image
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. — Henri Frederic Amiel Great souls Copy Share Image
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. — Henri Frederic Amiel Communication 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
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Adversity 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
There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in… — Henri Frederic Amiel Absolutes 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
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
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
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. — Henri Frederic Amiel Convenient Copy Share Image
How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Accepting Copy Share Image
The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Atheism Copy Share Image
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. — Henri Frederic Amiel Earth Copy Share Image
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. — Henri Frederic Amiel Being Copy Share Image
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. — Henri Frederic Amiel Causes Copy Share Image
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel Hundred Copy Share Image
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel Action 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
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. — Henri Frederic Amiel Earth Copy Share Image
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel Freedom 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
A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel Able Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. — Henri Frederic Amiel Age Copy Share Image
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools. — Henri Frederic Amiel Behave Copy Share Image
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. — Henri Frederic Amiel Humility 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
The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued… — Henri Frederic Amiel Aspire Copy Share Image
Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Compassion Copy Share Image
It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Astronomy Copy Share Image
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Feminism 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
Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other… — Henri Frederic Amiel Achieve 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 Art Copy Share Image
Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart;… — Henri Frederic Amiel Be patient Copy Share Image
