Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be… — Henri Frederic Amiel Behind you Copy Share Image
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper… — Henri Frederic Amiel Approved 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
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. — Henri Frederic Amiel Blessed Copy Share Image
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel Genius 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
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
How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as… — Henri Frederic Amiel Accidents 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 Alterations Copy Share Image
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature… — Henri Frederic Amiel Breaths 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
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel Action Copy Share Image
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. — Henri Frederic Amiel Approved Copy Share Image
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel Accomplices Copy Share Image
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything… — Henri Frederic Amiel Awake Copy Share Image
Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them — Henri Frederic Amiel Democracy 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
[T]he habit of scientific analysis ... exhausts the material offered to it... — Henri Frederic Amiel Analysis 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
All we need is the truth in our hand. Someone to call a friend. Never fear the darkness. All we need is… — Henri Frederic Amiel Darkness Copy Share Image
From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite. — Henri Frederic Amiel Earth 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
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