Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes - Page 7

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• Every life is a profession of faith.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Life Is, Profession

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• Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Rising

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• When everything has its proper place in our minds, we are able to stand in equilibrium with the rest of the world.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, World, Able

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• If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  States, Compulsion, Consent

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• Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Believe, Thinking, Illusion

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• I am a spectator, so to speak, of the molecular whirlwind which men call individual life; I am conscious of an incessant metamorphosis, an irresistible movement of existence, which is going on within me - and this phenomenology of myself serves as a window opened upon the mystery of the world.

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  Life, Men, World

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

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• Each bud flowers but once and each flower has but its minute of perfect beauty; so, in the garden of the soul each feeling has, as it were, its flowering instant, its one and only moment of expansive grace and radiant kingship.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Flower, Garden, Perfect

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Communication, Crowds, Contagion

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• To win true peace, a man needs to feel himself directed, pardoned, and sustained by a supreme power, to feel himself in the right road, at the point where God would have him be - in order with God and the universe. This faith gives strength and calm.

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  Men, Winning, Order

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• Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Happiness, Doe, Ugliness

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• The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith - that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Lying, Mind, Atheism

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

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• The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery on the other hand is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship, the power of proselytism.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Light, Philosopher, Mystery

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

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• Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

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  Reflection, Order, Doubt

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• In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

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  Christian, Order, Grace

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• We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

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  God, Successful, Hypocrisy

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

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  Action, Obscure, Concrete

  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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• If man was what he ought to be, he would be adored by the animals.

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  Animal, Men, Would Be

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• Only evil grows of itself, while for goodness we want effort and courage.

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  Evil, Effort, Want

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• Peace is not in itself a dream, but we know it only as the result of a momentary equilibrium--an accident.

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  Dream, Peace, Results

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• Common sense is calculation applied to life.

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  Common Sense, Common, Calculations

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• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

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  Love, Past, Affection

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• Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

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  Mom, Mother, Destiny

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• To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

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  Respect, Men, Our Time

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• We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

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  Acting, Actors, Want

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• Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Haste, Be Kind

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