Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 4

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• Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared.

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  Memories, Space, Perceive

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• Will localizes us, thought universalizes us.

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  Willpower

  "The Private Journal of Henri Frédéric Amiel". Book by Henri Frédéric Amiel, 1935.

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• To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

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  Happiness, Courage, Inner Peace

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• So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri

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  Change, Self, Long

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• Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement.

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  Failure, Pride, Discouragement

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• For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Men don't achieve truth because they lack humility and love of truth. They won't criticize their own beliefs. Truth would overwhelm them.

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  Humility, Men, And Love

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• Analysis kills spontaneity.

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  Life, Art, Philosophy

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• There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia. Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

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  Mean, Justice, Guilt

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• Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

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  Ambition, Dying, May

  Entry for May 03, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Whatever impatience we may feel towards our neighbor, and whatever indignation our race may rouse in us, we are chained one to another, and, companions in labour and misfortune, have everything to lose by mutual recrimination and reproach. Let us be silent as to each other's weakness, helpful, tolerant, many, tender towards each other! Or, if we cannot feel tenderness, may we at least feel pity!

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  Race, May, Weakness

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• We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. The consciousness of wrong-doing makes us irritable, and our heart, in its cunning, quarrels with what is outside it, in order that it may deafen the clamor within.

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  Heart, Order, May

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• Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.

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  Clever, People, Intelligence

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• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

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  Music, Ocean, Blessed

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

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  Children, Blessed, Childhood

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• The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists - in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record.

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  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

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• Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

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  Happiness, Believe, Grace

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• Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this.

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  Men, Wickedness, Succeed

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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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  Peace, Light, Voice

  Entry for April 06, 1851, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Order is man's greatest need, and his true well-being.

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  Men, Order, Needs

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• Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

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  Kindness, Compassion, Equality

  Entry of December 1863 or early 1864, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Humphry Ward, 1893.

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• Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small.

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  Self, Numbers, Wish

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• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

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  Art, Mean, Loss

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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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  Happiness, Moon, Shining

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• Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

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  Landscape, Spirit, American Landscape

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