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
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bottom Copy Share Image
I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I am, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Adrift Copy Share Image
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel Ambition Copy Share Image
Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Apprenticeship Copy Share Image
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bounds Copy Share Image
To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which… — Henri Frederic Amiel Claws 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
The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which… — Henri Frederic Amiel Born 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 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
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Art Copy Share Image
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing… — Henri Frederic Amiel Freedom Copy Share Image
The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too… — Henri Frederic Amiel Ears 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
Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul… — Henri Frederic Amiel Beauty Copy Share Image
Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm… — Henri Frederic Amiel Chocolate Copy Share Image
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him. — Henri Frederic Amiel Enters Copy Share Image
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. — Henri Frederic Amiel Atheism Copy Share Image
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel May Copy Share Image
A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Dues Copy Share Image
To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. — Henri Frederic Amiel Able Copy Share Image
When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God. — Henri Frederic Amiel Balance Copy Share Image
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. — Henri Frederic Amiel Acting Copy Share Image
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. — Henri Frederic Amiel Beauty Copy Share Image
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel Analysis Copy Share Image
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel Existing Copy Share Image
The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Alchemy Copy Share Image
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying… — Henri Frederic Amiel Dying Copy Share Image
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we… — Henri Frederic Amiel Education Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel Extraordinary Copy Share Image
