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 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
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
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 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 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 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
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Abyss 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 Copy Share Image
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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 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 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
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
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
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 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 Copy Share Image
