Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

The great artist is the simplifier.

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

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

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

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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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At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction ... and therefore he turns away from all those problems and abysses which might recall to him his own nothingness.

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Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are 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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Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

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Emancipation from error is the condition of real knowledge.

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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

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Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

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Doing easily what others find difficult is talent doing what is impossible for talent is genius.

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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd it must be communicated by contagion.

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

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

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Every life is a possession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

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A belief is not true because it is useful.

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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

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Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self order is power.

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Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and of life.

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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.

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Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love Make haste to be kind.

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Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity.

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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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