Quotes by Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Swiss philosopher and poet

Lived from: 1821 - 1881

Category: Philosophers | Poets (Contemporary)

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  • Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
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  • Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.
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  • Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
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  • Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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  • Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
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  • Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
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  • Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults -a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
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  • Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
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  • Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
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  • Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.
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  • Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.
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  • So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
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  • Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
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  • Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
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  • Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
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  • Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.
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  • The best path through life is the highway.
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  • The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
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  • The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
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  • The only substance properly so called is the soul.
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