Conditions Quote by Henri Frederic Amiel

“Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.”

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Conditions Criticism Emotion Firsts Justice Reason

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There is only one way of not hating those who do us wrong, and that is by doing them good.

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Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

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Order is power.

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Knowledge, love, power-there is the complete life.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.…

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Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling…

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We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

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Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from…

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Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

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Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

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The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the…

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The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it was his Comment on Galatians . . . . I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart . . . .…

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