Quotes by Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Swiss philosopher and poet

Lived from: 1821 - 1881

Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary)

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  • To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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  • Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
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  • Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
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  • Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.
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  • Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
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  • An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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  • Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
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  • Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
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  • Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
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  • Common sense is calculation applied to life.
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  • Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
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  • Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
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  • Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
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  • For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.
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  • Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
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  • He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
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  • If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
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  • In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
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  • 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.
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  • It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
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What are the most famous quotes from Henri-Frédéric Amiel?

The two most famous quotes from Henri-Frédéric Amiel are:

  • "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."
  • "Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."

When did Henri-Frédéric Amiel live?

Henri-Frédéric Amiel was born in 1821 and died in the year 1881.