Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quote

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.


Journal Intime (Dec. 17, 1856)


Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.