Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amielwas a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic...
NationalitySwiss
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 September 1821
CountrySwitzerland
motivational fitness freedom
In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
passion men iron
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.
cute-love loved sweet-love wish women
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
cute-love guardian loving object past pious sweet-love woman
In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past -- a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.
capable living
So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
difficult easily genius mark others talent
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
understand within
We only understand that which already within us.
expresses man worth
It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
courage happy
We must have the courage to be happy
believes curing health himself man sick
There is no curing a sick man who believes himself in health
becoming both common consists delusion lending madness oneself rising superior universal wisdom
Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and in lending oneself to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe.
finite fragments infinite space time
Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of the finite creatures.
basis energy gives happiness health
Health is the first of all liberties, and happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
science able finals
True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most, to attain as a final result.