To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel Genius Copy Share Image
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him. — Henri Frederic Amiel Enters Copy Share Image
“The stationary condition is the beginning of the end” — Henri Frederic Amiel Beginning Copy Share Image
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel Inner life Copy Share Image
Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for others is genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel Genius Copy Share Image
“The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.” — Henri Frédéric Amiel Inner life Copy Share Image
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel Light Copy Share Image
When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives… — Henri Frederic Amiel Clock Copy Share Image
Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of… — Henri Frederic Amiel Consciousness 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
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
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
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that… — Henri Frederic Amiel Bitterness Copy Share Image
The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Advantage Copy Share Image
“Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!” — Henri Frederic Amiel Life Copy Share Image
Truth above all, even when it upsets us and overwhelms us. — Henri Frederic Amiel Truth Copy Share Image
