The history of man is essentially zoological; it becomes human late in the day, and then only in the beautiful souls, the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Alive Copy Share Image
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself… — Henri Frederic Amiel Absolutes Copy Share Image
To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel Firsts 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
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
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. — Henri Frederic Amiel Acting Copy Share Image
He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous. — Henri Frederic Amiel Distrust Copy Share Image
Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge. — Henri Frederic Amiel Atheism 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
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. — Henri Frederic Amiel Action Copy Share Image
To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in… — Henri Frederic Amiel Calm Copy Share Image
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Brutal Copy Share Image
The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history. — Henri Frederic Amiel History 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
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
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. — Henri Frederic Amiel Dangerous Copy Share Image
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public. — Henri Frederic Amiel Art Copy Share Image
