Henri Frederic Amiel
Philosopher
1821-09-27
Books by Henri Frederic Amiel
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Amiel's Journal; The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Amiel's Journal; Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Tr. with an Introduction and Notes by Mrs. Humphry Ward
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Quotes by Henri Frederic Amiel
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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
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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.
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
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To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
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Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain one ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
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A belief is not true because it is useful.
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Charm: that quality in others of making us more satisfied with ourselves.
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To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
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Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
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To repel one's cross is to make it heavier.
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