Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel Famous Quotes & Sayings
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When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.
Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
If ignorance and passion are the foes of popular morality, it must be confessed that moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.
Let the living live; and you, gather together your thoughts, leave behind you a legacy of feeling and ideas; you will be most useful so.
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.
Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.
It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.
Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.
When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.
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.
Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.
Life is short and we never have enough time for the hearts of those who travel the way with us. O, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind.
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.