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A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.
— 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
The only substance properly so called is the soul.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Time wasted is a theft from God.
— 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
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
A belief is not true simply because it is useful.
— 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
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
— 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
Hope is only the love of life.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power.
— 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
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.
— 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
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
At bottom, everything depends upon the presence or absence of one single element in the soul - HOPE
— Henri Frederic Amiel
Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows
— Itzik Amiel
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind.
— Henri Frederic Amiel