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
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
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Examination 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
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
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming… — Henri Frederic Amiel Becoming 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
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its… — Henri Frederic Amiel Degrees 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
