Amiel Quotes

As it is impossible to be outside God, the best is consciously to dwell in Him. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress. — Henri Frederic Amiel

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Amiel was looking at me with the kind of interest that made my mouth dry up. I was Braille and his eyes were fingers. — Laura McNeal

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. — Henri Frederic Amiel

All share complicity in the destruction of that much under-rated phenomenon called liberty. — Barbara Amiel

all appears to change when we change — Henri Frederic Amiel

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction. — Henri Frederic Amiel

You do not need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends you can be certain of — Itzik Amiel

You should prepare for your future, you cant stop it from coming. — Amiel Masaganda Bagadiong

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

It is not only business to business sake but human to human sake. — Itzik Amiel

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Life is short. We don't have much time to gladden the hearts of those who walk this way with us. So, be swift to love and make haste to be kind. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. — Henri Frederic Amiel

What governs men is the fear of truth. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Almost everything comes from almost nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Love is faith and one faith leads to another. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A belief is not true because it is useful — Henri Frederic Amiel

The only substance properly so called is the soul. — 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

Time wasted is a theft from God. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians. — Henri Frederic Amiel

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Sadness takes up the pen more readily than joy. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the men which it forms — Henri Frederic Amiel

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A belief is not true simply because it is useful. — Henri Frederic Amiel

To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Will localizes us, thought universalizes us. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. — Henri Frederic Amiel

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows — Itzik Amiel

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

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. — Henri Frederic Amiel

When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world. — Henri Frederic Amiel

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word. — Barbara Amiel

Hope is only the love of life. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

When we are doing nothing in particula, it is then that we are living through all our being. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means. — Henri Frederic Amiel

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature ... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures. — Henri Frederic Amiel

We only understand that which already is within us. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Indeed, we Jews were at the leading edge of communist totalitarianism, one of the most murderous movements of the 20th century. — Barbara 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

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Society rests upon conscience, not upon science. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships. — Barbara Amiel

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Order is a great person's need and their true well being. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians. — Barbara Amiel

Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium
an accident. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. — Henri Frederic Amiel

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. — Henri Frederic Amiel

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself. — Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World. — Barbara Amiel

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

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. — Henri Frederic Amiel

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia. — Barbara Amiel

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. — Henri Frederic Amiel