Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes

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

Political, Religious, System

We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Others, Ourselves

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Regret, Before

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Courage, Happy, Live

True humility is contentment.
Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Truth, Dangerous, Degree

Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Others, Makes, Ourselves

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Art, True

The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Best, Through

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Work, Light, Talent

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Once, Ground, Analysis

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Faith, Silent

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Sympathy, Criticism, Condition

Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Thought, While, Exists

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Cross, Shun, Heavier

We only understand that which already is within us.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Understand, Within

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Teacher, Writing, Water

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Thought, Action, Obscure

Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Nothing, Clever, Tolerate

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Nothing, Cleverness, Sufficient

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Nothing, Thought, Energy

He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Life, Nature, Nothing

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
Henri Frederic Amiel

State, Consent, Compulsion

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Past, Woman, Loving

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

Health, Freedom, Liberties

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Biography

Nationality: Swiss

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 27, 1821

Died: 1881

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