Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
exercise quiet influence
Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
happiness moon shining
Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
regret men perfection
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
hope refuge uncertainty
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
life responsibility ambition
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
children blessed childhood
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
running perseverance mean
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
action obscure concrete
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
science class mind
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps, 'faith governs the world,'-but the faith of the present is no longer in revelation or in the priest-it is in reason and in science.
funny truth mistake
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
heart self wind
Let mystery have its place in you ; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring ...
genius impossible talent
To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
inspirational motivational happy-birthday
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
change self long
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being. -Henri