Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quote

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.


Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel; Tr., with an Introduction and Notes (ed. 1893)


Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is...

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is...

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is...

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is...