Henri-Frédéric Amiel Short Quotes

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Society lives by faith, develops by science.

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Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

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We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

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Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.

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In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.

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Thought is sad without action, and action is sad without thought.

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There is no curing a sick man who believes himself to be in health.

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

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Without faith a man can do nothing. But faith can stifle all science.

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

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Charm: the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

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

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Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake.

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The habit of scientific analysis... exhausts the material offered to it...

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A musical theme once exhausted, finds its due refuge and repose in silence.

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Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence.

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Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.

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A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

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

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He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

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Mother of Marvels, mysterious and tender Nature, why do we not live more in thee.

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The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

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A thousand things advance, nine hundred and ninety-eight retreat: this is progress.

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We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own iniquities.

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Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

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Destiny has two ways of crushing us—by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

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

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Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

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The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

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