[ henri frederic amiel Quotes ]
33 Quotations
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
[ Action ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
25 votes
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
[ Mistakes ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
25 votes
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
[ Analysis ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
20 votes
Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
[ Charm ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
28 votes
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
30 votes
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
[ Cleverness ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
31 votes
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
[ Common Sense ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
26 votes
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
[ Fate ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
14 votes
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
[ Genius ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
30 votes
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
[ Influence ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
30 votes
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
[ State ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
9 votes
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
[ Character ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
29 votes
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
[ Materialism ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
27 votes
Order is power.
[ Order ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
17 votes
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
[ Power ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
24 votes
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
[ Communication ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
22 votes
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
[ Sacrifice ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
29 votes
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
[ Change ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
29 votes
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
[ Sympathy ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
17 votes
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
[ Passion ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
22 votes
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
[ Respectability ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
29 votes
To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.
[ Respectability ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
25 votes
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
[ Happiness ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
26 votes
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
[ Marriage ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
10 votes
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
[ Responsibility ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
17 votes
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
[ Uncertainty ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
14 votes
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
[ Relationships ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
29 votes
We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.
[ Acting and Actors ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
30 votes
Will localizes us; thought universalizes us.
[ Will and Will Power ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
18 votes
