Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes & Quotations
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Time wasted is a theft from God. - Henri Frederic Amiel
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past, a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Order is power. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favourite sin. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Liberty, equality, bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness. - Henri Frederic Amiel
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. - Henri Frederic Amiel
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. - Henri Frederic Amiel
To de-personalize man is the dominant drift of our times. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. - Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth, which it contains. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Order is a great person's need and their true well being. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. - Henri Frederic Amiel
To live we must conquer incessantly; we must have the courage to be happy. - Henri Frederic Amiel
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists, in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. - Henri Frederic Amiel
It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Time wasted is a theft from God. - Henri Frederic Amiel
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past, a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Order is power. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favourite sin. - Henri Frederic Amiel
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. - Henri Frederic Amiel
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. - Henri Frederic Amiel
To de-personalize man is the dominant drift of our times. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe. - Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth, which it contains. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Order is a great person's need and their true well being. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality. - Henri Frederic Amiel
To live we must conquer incessantly; we must have the courage to be happy. - Henri Frederic Amiel
The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists, in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record. - Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. - Henri Frederic Amiel
It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is. - Henri Frederic Amiel