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Henri Frederic Amiel [1821-1881] Swiss

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

Life, Faith, Future, Age, Best, Communication, Courage, Freedom, Good, Happiness, Health, Hope, Intelligence, Love, Nature, Peace, Power, Relationship, Respect, Science, Society, Success, Sympathy, Teacher, Thankful, Time, Truth, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.	Respect	101
Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.	Thankful	102
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.	Life, Love, Time	103
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.	Freedom, Health	104
The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.	Life	105
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.	Good	106
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.	Age	107
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.	Future, Success	108
True humility is contentment.	Peace	109
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.		110
The best path through life is the highway.	Best, Life	111
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.	Future	112
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.		113
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.	Intelligence	114
We only understand that which already is within us.		115
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.		116
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.	Women	117
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.		118
Common sense is calculation applied to life.		119
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.		120
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.		121
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.	Nature	122
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.		123
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.	Truth	124
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.		125
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.	Teacher	126
The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.		201
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.	Happiness	202
Society lives by faith, and develops by science.	Faith, Science, Society	203
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.		204
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.		205
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.	Faith	206
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.		207
To marry unequally is to suffer equally.	Relationship	208
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.		209
Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.		210
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.	Communication	211
To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.	Courage	212
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.		213
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.	Hope	214
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.		215
The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.		216
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.		217
Order is power.	Power	218
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.		219
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.		220
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.		221
Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.		222
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.		223
Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.		224
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.		225
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.		226
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.		301
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.		302
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.		303
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.		304
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.		305
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.		306
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.		307
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.	Sympathy	308
To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.		309
Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.		310
The only substance properly so called is the soul.		311
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.		312
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.		313
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.		314

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