Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Force Copy Share Image
As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him. — Henri Frederic Amiel God 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
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri — Henri Frederic Amiel Capable Copy Share Image
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Clamor Copy Share Image
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times. — Henri Frederic Amiel Dominant Copy Share Image
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. — Henri Frederic Amiel Grace Copy Share Image
Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. — Henri Frederic Amiel Attitude Copy Share Image
The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or… — Henri Frederic Amiel Be a man Copy Share Image
A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel Hundred 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
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Death 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
The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it… — Henri Frederic Amiel Character Copy Share Image
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel Freedom Copy Share Image
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bounds Copy Share Image
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures… — Henri Frederic Amiel Ability Copy Share Image
Religion is not a method, it is a life, a higher and supernatural life, mystical in its root and practical in its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Calm 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
