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Henri Frederic Amiel
Profession : Philosopher
Birth : September 27, 1821
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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
Henri Frederic Amiel
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Frederic Amiel
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.
Henri Frederic Amiel
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
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
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