Henri-Frédéric Amiel Quote

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.