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• Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for the modification of ideas supplied by genius.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Ideas, Filters

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• I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born of doubt and scruple, has at least the advantage of rendering all the different shades of my thought, and of being sincere. If it were to become terse, affirmative, resolute, would it not be a mere imitation?

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Character, Doubt, Shade

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• Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Flower, Men

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• Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Justice, Criticism, Firsts

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• It would have been a joy to me to be smiled upon, loved, encouraged, welcomed, and to obtain what I was so ready to give, kindness and goodwill. But to hunt down consideration and reputation - to force the esteem of others - seemed to me an effort unworthy of myself, almost a degradation.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Giving, Joy

  "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Artist, Simple

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• War is a brutal and fierce means of pacification; it means the suppression of resistance by the destruction or enslavement of the conquered.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  War, Mean, Resistance

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• A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Silence, Musical, Exhausted

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• True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Science, Finals, Able

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• Everything which is, is thought, but not conscious and individual thought. The human intelligence is but the consciousness of being. It is what I have formulated before: Everything is a symbol of a symbol, and a symbol of what? Of mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, Consciousness, Individual

  Entry for December 30, 1850, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Opportunity, Night

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• To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Morning, Health, Rose

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• To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love Is, Men, Misunderstood

  Entry for May 27, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Sacrifice, Law

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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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Thinking, Mountain, Kind

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• It gives liberty and breadth to thought, to learn to judge our own epoch from the point of view of universal history, history from the point of view of geological periods, geology from the point of view of astronomy.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Views, Judging, Giving

  Entry for July 20, 1848, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• The musician of the present day, not being able to give us what is beautiful, torments himself to give us what is new.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Beautiful, Giving, Musician

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• To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Understanding, Firsts, Understood

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• A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Blow

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Nature does at least what she can to translate into visible form the wealth of the creative formula. By the vastness of the abysses into which she penetrates, in the effort--the unsuccessful effort--to house and contain the eternal thought, we may measure the greatness of the divine mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Nature, Greatness, Effort

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• Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Doubt, Tyranny, Accomplices

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• Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Time, Ideas, Illusion

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• Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Passion, Men, Play

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• The only substance properly so called is the soul.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Substance

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• Common sense is the measure of the possible.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Common Sense, Common, Prevision

  "On the Art of Business" by Abdul Wahab Al-Falaij and James Howard Merkel, (p. 88), 2004.

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