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Charm is the quality in others...

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

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Life alone can rekindle life....

Life alone can rekindle life.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Heroism is the brilliant trium...

Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

How true it is that our destin...

How true it is that our destinies are decided by nothings and that a small imprudence helped by some insignificant accident, as an acorn is fertilized by a drop of rain, may raise the trees on which perhaps we and others shall be crucified.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Sympathy is the first conditio...

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

A man only understands what is...

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

The unfinished is nothing....

The unfinished is nothing.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

There are 2 sorts of pride: on...

There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Nothing is more characteristic...

Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the manner in which he behaves toward fools.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

A philosopher is aspires to ex...

A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Our dependence outweighs our i...

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Let mystery have its place in ...

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 little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Man is a passion which brings ...

Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

At bottom, everything depends ...

At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

He who floats with the current...

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 . . . a thing moved, instead of a living and moving being-an echo, not a voice. The man who has no inner-life is a slave of his surroundings as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

A man must be able to cut a kn...

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 detail in which it is enwrapped, for everything cannot be equally considered; in a word, he must be able to simplify his duties, his business and his life.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Dreams are excursions into the...

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Every landscape is, as it were...

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 in each detail.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

It is dangerous to abandon one...

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.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

If ignorance and passion are t...

If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

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