All Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes
- We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to. Actors
- Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth. All
- Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace… All
- True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,… Able
- Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. Conscience
- [I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,… All
- Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. Absolve
- There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good. Good
- To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. Call
- To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. Genius
- Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health. Bases
- A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be. Able
- Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and… All
- The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing… Ability
- He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a man is .… According
- A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the… Able
- Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. Deliverance
- Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is… Astonished
- In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians. All
- It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery. Abandon
- Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world… All
- If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes. Class
- Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. Charm
- Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a… Always Turning
- Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. Condition