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Men don't achieve truth becaus...

Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Men prefer the false due to ha...

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 355 quotes

There is no repose for the min...

There is no repose for the mind except in the absolute; for feeling, except in the infinite; for the soul, except in the divine.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

What we call little things are...

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Every living being seeks insti...

Every living being seeks instinctively to complete itself.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

If man was what he ought to be...

If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals...

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

The beautiful souls of the wor...

The beautiful souls of the world have an art of saintly alchemy, by which bitterness is converted into kindness, the gall of human experience into gentleness, ingratitude into benefits, insults into pardon.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

The mind must have for ballast...

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Every situation is an equilibr...

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Self-interest is an inexhausti...

Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Mother of Marvels, mysterious ...

Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

What governs men is the fear o...

What governs men is the fear of truth.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

To do easily what is difficult...

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Time wasted is a theft from Go...

Time wasted is a theft from God.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

I wonder whether I should gain...

I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

To be misunderstood even by th...

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Each bud flowers but once and ...

Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

The musician of the present da...

The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

I have never felt any inward a...

I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself in imagination great or famous, or even a husband, a father, an influential citizen. This indifference to the future, this absolute self-distrust, are, no doubt, to be taken as signs. What dreams I have are all vague and indefinite; I ought not to live, for I am now scarcely capable of living.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

Men of genius supply the subst...

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

Henri-Frederic Amiel 355 quotes

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