HOME POPULAR Love Life Inspiration Motivation Funny Friendship Family Faith Happy Hurt Sad Cute Success Wisdom ALL TOPICS Animals Art Attitude Beauty Business Birthdays Dreams Facts Fitness Food Forgiving Miss You Nature Peace Smile So True Sports Teenage Trust Movie TV Weddings More.. AUTHORS Einstein Plato Aristotle Twain Monroe Jefferson Wilde Carroll Confucius Hepburn Dalai Lama Lewis Lincoln Mandela Lao Tzu Ford More.. Affirmations Birthday Wishes
Follow On Pinterest
Advertisements

Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
Advertisements
1 2 3 4 5 6
Friendship Quotes Love Quotes Life Quotes Funny Quotes Motivational Quotes Inspirational Quotes
Advertisements
Text Quotes
Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) The growth and development of the soul is more important than power and glory  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Our greatest illusion is to believe that we are what we think ourselves to be  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one’s self; order is power  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) 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  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) 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 Quotes) Time is but the space between our memories; as soon as we cease to perceive this space, time has disappeared  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Before crime is committed conscience must be corrupted, and every bad man who succeeds in reaching a high point of wickedness begins with this  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me  (Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes)
1 2 3 4 5 6