78 Quotations by Henri Frederic Amiel
- 1. A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage wha ...
- 2. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflect ...
- 3. Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
- 4. An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
- 5. Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
- 6. Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- 7. Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
- 8. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
- 9. Common sense is calculation applied to life.
- 10. Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calcu ...
- 11. Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line a ...
- 12. Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
- 13. Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
- 14. Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
- 15. Faith is a certitude without proofs... a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it prec ...
- 16. For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil ...
- 17. Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are ...
- 18. He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else t ...
- 19. How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, inst ...
- 20. If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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