Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 6

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• Righteous ends, thus approved, absolve of guilt the most violent means.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mean, Diversity, Guilt

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• What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

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  Black, Storm, Littles

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• Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Triumph, Heroism

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• The great majority of men are but tangled skeins, imperfect keyboards, so many specimens of restless or stagnant chaos--and what makes their situation almost hopeless is the fact that they take pleasure in it. There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Men, Sick

  Journal Intime 6 February (1877)

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• Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.

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  Ideas, Two, Needs

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• It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

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  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Law, Whole

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• He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Too Much, Lost, Distrust

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• Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Men

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

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  Exercise, Quiet, Life Is

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• The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Morning, Too Late, Ears

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• Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life? The gloom of an eternal mourning enwraps, more or less closely, every serious and thoughtful soul, as night enwraps the universe.

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  Life, Thoughtful, Night

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• Hope is only the love of life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Hope, Anticipation

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• Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

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  Valentines Day, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• 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.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Apology, Atheism, Faults

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• Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

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  Hero, Greatness, Men

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• The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

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  Hero, Heart, Criminals

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• To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

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  Genius, Impossible, Talent

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• What governs men is the fear of truth.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Men, Voting

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• At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, May, Study

  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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• Every landscape is, as it were, a state of the soul, and whoever penetrates into both is astonished to find how much likeness there is in each detail.

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  Nature, Soul, Details

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• Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

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  Acceptance, Giving, Advice

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• The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

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  Ends, Stationary, Conditions

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• Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

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  Faith, Instinct, Proof

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• The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Grief, Men

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