Quotes By Henri Frederic Amiel

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.

In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

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.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

We only understand that which already is within us.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

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

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

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

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

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

The best path through life is the highway.

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.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

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.